<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418245/bk84ra4zpajkt82h60qy.png"><figcaption>The Chicago Athletic Association Hotel</figcaption></figure>By CGN Staff via NADA PRAs we gear up for a season of museum blockbusters and gallery group shows and summer art walks, we also have one eye on the fall, which is Chicago's busiest art season of the year. Come September, in addition to the eighth edition of EXPO Chicago and the third Chicago Architecture Biennial, a new art fair will take place: The Chicago Invitational, presented by the nonprofit&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newartdealers.org/">New Art Dealers Alliance</a> and running September 18-21, will overlap with EXPO and span three floors of the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel on Michigan Ave. &nbsp;In 2018 NADA&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/market/nada-new-york-shuts-down-1330418">cancelled</a> its New York fair.&nbsp;As EXPO has established its strong, international profile during it previous seven editions, the addition of a new fair in the city with a commitment to newer voices and unconventional initiatives in the art community will broaden the scope and appeal of events taking place during this busy time in Chicago and extend the profile of the city as a hub for contemporary art and culture.&nbsp;Current NADA member galleries based in Chicago include: Shane Campbell, Document, Kavi Gupta, M. LeBlanc, PATRON, Regards, Volume, and Western Exhibitions.&nbsp;&nbsp;CGN will continue to share updates as they become available. Additional details below via NADA's press release this week:“Historically, Chicago has been a hotbed of artist-run galleries and alternative spaces,” said Heather Hubbs, NADA Executive Director and former Chicago-based art professional. “The city then and now embodies the experimental spirit of NADA, and we look forward to connecting our exhibitors with this audience.“The fair will take place throughout three floors of the iconic Chicago Athletic Association Hotel, with a curated selection of galleries in the hotel’s historic Stagg Court and Tank spaces, and a takeover of 13 hotel rooms on the fourth floor. The landmark hotel is located across from Chicago cultural landmarks the Millennium Park and the Art Institute of Chicago.“I’m very excited for the Chicago Invitational, NADA’s new and re-imagined art fair at the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel. This important expansion to Chicago, in an ideal venue, will continue our mission to support artists and arts organizations internationally,” said Rachel Uffner, NADA Board President and owner of Rachel Uffner Gallery. “The Invitational will also allow us to cultivate existing relationships in the region while developing new ones. We are already feeling incredible support from Chicago’s cultural and arts community and are looking forward to seeing everyone in September.”The inaugural edition of the Chicago Invitational further exemplifies NADA’s expanded commitment to year-round programming and producing alternatives for galleries to exhibit artwork in a new setting. NADA recently held the New York Gallery Open, a new initiative designed to bring visitors and collectors to over 50 art spaces across New York City for public tours, talks, and performances, and NADA House, the organization’s second off-site exhibition on Governors Island, which will be on view from May through August 2019.“As EXPO CHICAGO approaches its eighth edition, we welcome the addition of the Chicago Invitational presented by NADA, which will serve as a complement to a full week of exhibition alignments, openings, and events for international arts patrons to explore,” said Tony Karman, President | Director of EXPO CHICAGO. “NADA’s critically acclaimed fairs and year-round programming in support of its members remains extremely important in these ever-changing times, and I am confident that their first Chicago edition will be successful.”</body></html>

A New Art Fair This September: NADA's 1st Chicago Invitational

By CGN Staff via CAC PR<figure class="image"><img src="https://marketing-image-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/1130ee4e33fb1cb72c5aded1ec7047113cdaa0af51f6edbe92390b766812977838fbce13af4531433b407f9a7052c7b927815db4416eb20b20efd9d26129efa1.jpg" alt=""></figure>This week Chicago Artists Coalition shared news of a new grant/award program to support emerging artists with unique support needs.&nbsp;CAC announced the 15 inaugural awardees for the&nbsp;SPARK&nbsp;Microgrant: a new, unrestricted award opportunity for emerging Chicago-based visual artists who identify as&nbsp;ALAANA (African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, Native American), an artist with acute financial need, an artist with a disability, or as a self-taught/non-formally trained artist who does not hold a degree from an art program but has made their art practice a primary vocation. With the generous support of the Joyce Foundation, the SPARK&nbsp;Microgrant&nbsp;offers 15 unrestricted awards of $2,000 each to recognize exceptional emerging artists working in Chicago.2019 awardees include Alexandra Antoine, Gregory Bae, Rose Blouin, Laksha Dantran, Coriama Davis, Kevin Demery, Ashley Freeby, Jacquelyn Guerrero, Candace Hunter, Liang Luscombe, SaraNoa Mark, Meida McNeil, Carlos Barberena de la Rocha, Dorian Sylvain and Chunbo Zhang.The selected artists span a diverse range of mediums and artistic practices. The unrestricted award seeks to alleviate some of the financial burdens associated with being a working artist today.&nbsp;To read all 2019 SPARK Microgrant awardee bios, <a href="https://u56787.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=mPItHjtI7tOJrRgasA2r3ZrjKxhIn-2F77inofey5MtoeRgE-2B4NzqVTCc5mEe-2BOR-2FmmjR3USWXSknLVeLO6n95fKVZ3iFcX7rToF7kCGwAaF8-2FTTVnL6cS92LYTBnSkgOQlbhmKhqPEouNARHr8Ziilw-3D-3D_ccrt5mFyEURAsnSxeCM5PPo2atdxAGCaQlH-2BxhBeC2CXdtoRskmbVfOZI162ow-2FcFbRvHHXvmWFsiOTp9XtEo0OjuX5EiD9Xmkg0NMXMseSjBHAkxVNprg-2FL-2FcgKOGo9Fk-2FCwENkTM7BUWCEWUYQgZ4oOxOhWSu46GSn-2BxerbXodwMtRVtduBgS5AwCq2jXEI3zA4A9VHVDM0lB17-2FzWAfPHI93U3-2BxGZvBYYM92VhKJLxs5DAxyjMQJwKgP2pjYgJpoKjAohBv-2B8XuJh4CQ-2FBbmnc6GzjU9bGV466pxLZmNNfof3dlDl-2BBJMBDmL5j7D7O8EbbDlwt14vctsVVxqiLesEYsHJD6oHVafNUq9CspspDLXdGMO-2BQ-2BSH8khzBGkH5QJP9iiHTS6Te3tzeEJ-2FtSUC7-2FVsxyU3FFi2VkoKRKfUnKyTabfL-2FsKVY-2FCxF5">click here</a>.This program reaffirms CAC’s commitment to emerging artists of Chicago and demonstrates the organization’s desire to directly address the historical barriers that have prevented the arts in the city from reflecting its demographic. The SPARK&nbsp;Microgrant recognizes that the category of “emerging artist” is not necessarily defined by age but often a consequence of encountering systemic disadvantages perpetuated by discriminatory policies, structures and&nbsp;practices; or, by operating outside of an academic or institutional system.The inaugural cycle of the program received 186 applications that were juried by Rashayla Marie Brown, Sky Cubacub, Pemon Rami and Vincent Uribe.&nbsp;Caroline Older, Executive Director of&nbsp;CAC, notes, “We are grateful to be collaborating with the Joyce Foundation to create a program that directly supports and acknowledges artists as a vital part of the city’s arts ecosystem.”“Expanding funding for Chicago artists was among the top priorities outlined in the city’s cultural plan. The creation of this new&nbsp;microgrant&nbsp;program directly connects to that goal,” stated Tracie D. Hall, Director of the Joyce Foundation’s Culture Program. &nbsp;“We have truly visionary artists living and working in every neighborhood across the city. We hope that this new line of support will help bring some of their visions to life, for their individual benefit and that of their broader communities.”CAC&nbsp;hired Adia&nbsp;Sykes to manage and administer this new program. Sykes received her BA in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2016 and MA in Arts Administration and Policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018. She works as an independent curator and arts administrator throughout Chicago and has previously realized projects with the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Woman Made Gallery, ACRE Projects and the Chicago Mayor’s Office.More information on the SPARK Microgrant program can be found <a href="https://u56787.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=lsHS5Knzzw6Kzie1hb3iMDg-2BRjG7Kdmk2lsOK-2FQzM7W1nTbJbyVhTQYxuMT-2BEbqphNi-2FHQRKOSNcf4-2Fokg42vH0DL-2Bgrh2wYDkYfoMOP390RhkIEV15V3ID2EylrFbT0n5rTcQzHkAY09ArTY0j4bYB4hVA44oj8Wr68IOUQFb4-3D_ccrt5mFyEURAsnSxeCM5PPo2atdxAGCaQlH-2BxhBeC2CXdtoRskmbVfOZI162ow-2FcFbRvHHXvmWFsiOTp9XtEo0OjuX5EiD9Xmkg0NMXMseSjBHAkxVNprg-2FL-2FcgKOGo9Fk-2FCwENkTM7BUWCEWUYQgZ4oOxOhWSu46GSn-2BxerbXodwMtRVtduBgS5AwCq2jXEI3zA4A9VHVDM0lB17-2FzWAfPHI93U3-2BxGZvBYYM92VhJwy9yFxEL5c2U3v7SO1qpq81We37r8A6rr-2FR1T9ZPYkrI5IgJXxM-2BgIaE-2BiKs3JJqVIcEflGZ5Xpe9bfctOUn6rPGvYb88vXjLE2CWwDVRQRcTcDkJIyDHzEUFm8hBfUKoLqEi0lJTqN-2FrId9VZ74YmzM9hf4jtcf3CbC8k-2FqlOEt2kU5Q3K8QJDSH0ecWG83-2FmCycXyB-2BCESWmZTuLjnd">here</a>.

CAC Awards 15 Artists New SPARK Microgrants

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418244/tdmezkev01mnygy24jdl.gif"><figcaption>Hebru Brantley's (new) mural is painted on 1401 North Milwaukee Avenue</figcaption></figure>By CGN STAFF via DCASE PRLast year some murals around the city were power washed (by the City, it turns out) into oblivion. As was the case for artist <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2018/9/oops-i-had-to-do-it-again-hebru-brantley-repaints-mural-covered-by-city">Hebru Brantley</a>, he created a new mural in the original location, thanks to some private neighborhood funding. In order to prevent such incidents from happening again, the City began to consider a registry of public murals throughout Chicago.Yesterday the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) announced the launch of the City of Chicago Mural Registry, a publicly-accessible database of Chicago’s growing collection of murals found at <a href="http://icm-tracking.meltwater.com/link.php?DynEngagement=true&amp;H=I%2BqMhXDuIS2RujNbavWSOKShOr7Ezi73JeGvxlkJ09Qb0kDpZZQFeNpuUszPZOPpev69iwnbOgAmGaPx7GQTtNwQQRSqSssk9D4%2FSBccByrIq%2B0wicOUWdpZNZN4jf60dGPS%2FojzP%2Bk%3D&amp;G=0&amp;R=file%3A%2F%2F%2FC%3A%5CUsers%5C1845%5CDownloads%5Cchicago.gov%5Cmuralregistry&amp;I=20190415143616.00000183ddec%40mail6-46-ussnn1&amp;X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjVjYjQ4ZTBmNGZkZjUzZDhjMWY4YWM1ZTs%3D&amp;S=_pffQ14zp7bTvs6QytOFBmm4e3u76oaSVtpXgfJIR64">chicago.gov/muralregistry</a>. In October 2018, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and 2nd&nbsp;Ward Alderman Brian Hopkins introduced an ordinance to the City Council to create a registry of murals, including graffiti art. Maintained by the Public Art Program of the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), the Registry has been developed as a resource tool that will help communities identify, explore and preserve murals in our neighborhoods. As part of the registry’s release, DCASE will work with city agencies, aldermen, community groups, block clubs, chambers of commerce and residents to populate and promote the registry.“Chicago is home to talented artists, working across all mediums, creating public art and adding to the cultural fabric of our communities,” said Mayor Rahm Emanuel. “This registry will strengthen Chicago’s legacy of public art and enable artists to share their work with the world.”“Public art in Chicago is very much a part of the spirit and quality of life in neighborhoods throughout the city,” said Mark Kelly, Commissioner, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. “Not only will the new registry help protect these critical cultural assets, it will also create a portal for the public to access and explore where murals are located in every corner of the city.“The Mural Registry catalogues and acknowledges Chicago’s collection of murals and will include a growing list of completed murals created on both private and public property. Artists, organizations and property owners are encouraged to register completed murals by submitting an application. Accepted murals will be assigned a unique Mural Registration ID and will receive an official emblem from the City of Chicago.There are no fees associated with the Mural Registry. For the registration criteria and application, visit <a href="http://icm-tracking.meltwater.com/link.php?DynEngagement=true&amp;H=I%2BqMhXDuIS2RujNbavWSOKShOr7Ezi73JeGvxlkJ09Qb0kDpZZQFeNpuUszPZOPpev69iwnbOgAmGaPx7GQTtNwQQRSqSssk9D4%2FSBccByrIq%2B0wicOUWdpZNZN4jf60dGPS%2FojzP%2Bk%3D&amp;G=0&amp;R=file%3A%2F%2F%2FC%3A%5CUsers%5C400147.CITYOFCHICAGO%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CMicrosoft%5CWindows%5CTemporary%2520Internet%2520Files%5CContent.Outlook%5CKUMLQRIB%5Cchicago.gov%5Cmuralregistry&amp;I=20190415143616.00000183ddec%40mail6-46-ussnn1&amp;X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjVjYjQ4ZTBmNGZkZjUzZDhjMWY4YWM1ZTs%3D&amp;S=Nfm4bHo9K4_dNVgPHBK3Eq-rY_PlFAnpXRK3r6G3jrM">chicago.gov/muralregistry</a>.DCASE will hold two public information sessions about the Mural Registry and the registration process on Monday, April 22, from 5–6 p.m. and Tuesday, April 30, from 12–1 p.m. at the Chicago Cultural Center (78 E. Washington St.) in the Millennium Park Room, 5th&nbsp;Floor South. Artists, arts organizations and business/property owners are encouraged to attend.In 2017, the City of Chicago celebrated the "Year of Public Art," which culminated with hundreds of new works of public art throughout the city and the creation of Chicago’s first Public Art Plan. The new plan is a blueprint that will help shape the future of public art in Chicago and shift how we interact, talk about and support works of art that can be viewed by all. Chicago was one of the first municipalities in 1978 to implement an ordinance mandating that 1.33% of the cost of public buildings be set aside for the creation of original artwork.The Chicago Public Art Collection managed by DCASE includes more than 500 works of art exhibited in over 150 municipal facilities around the city, such as police stations, libraries, and CTA stations. The Collection provides the citizens of Chicago with an improved public environment and enhances city buildings and spaces with quality works of art by professional artists. For complete details on the Chicago’s Public Art Program, visit <a href="http://icm-tracking.meltwater.com/link.php?DynEngagement=true&amp;H=I%2BqMhXDuIS2RujNbavWSOKShOr7Ezi73JeGvxlkJ09Qb0kDpZZQFeNpuUszPZOPpev69iwnbOgAmGaPx7GQTtNwQQRSqSssk9D4%2FSBccByrIq%2B0wicOUWdpZNZN4jf60dGPS%2FojzP%2Bk%3D&amp;G=0&amp;R=file%3A%2F%2F%2FC%3A%5CUsers%5C1845%5CDownloads%5Cchicago.gov%5Cdcase&amp;I=20190415143616.00000183ddec%40mail6-46-ussnn1&amp;X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjVjYjQ4ZTBmNGZkZjUzZDhjMWY4YWM1ZTs%3D&amp;S=f8fe6H_CbZIC1ewHn6m0--c5aHETilZXDf-gS6kMjvE">chicago.gov/dcase</a>.</body></html>

Accidents Can Happen, So The City of Chicago Launches Mural Registry

<html><head></head><body>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418147/dcrpgljiymt233xrqt0k.jpg"><figcaption>Chicago Cultural Center. Courtesy Chicago Architecture Center</figcaption></figure>By GINNY VAN ALYEAIs it a biennial? Or should we call it a Biennale?A slip of the tongue by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, which turned into a joke, revealed that as this thoroughly American city, recognized for its abundance of significant architecture, prepares to host the third Chicago Architecture Biennial (yes, that's part of the official usage, vs the Italian word for every other year) it hopes to engage with a global audience in talking about new concepts and practices in the field.&nbsp;Last week the Chicago Architecture Biennial announced the first group of contributors to the 2019 edition, which will open this fall. Titled ...and other such stories, the biennial will form an expansive and multi-faceted exploration of the field of architecture and the built environment.&nbsp;At the event at the Chicago Cultural Center on Thursday, a large crowd came in from the rain to gather in Preston Bradley Hall under the morning's stand–in for the sun, the intricate and illuminated Tiffany dome. The outgoing Mayor Emanuel kept things light, reminding the crowd that they were visiting Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Mark Kelly's 'house', and that Kelly most likely has the nicer office between the two. Emanuel went on to emphasize that spaces and built environments are important in the lives of many and in multiple contexts. The Chicago Architecture Biennial is a means of bringing culture to the citizens who live in all 77 neighborhoods of the city. This event, said Emanuel, puts Chicago on the global stage along with Paris, London, Berlin, LA and New York, among many others.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418148/mvd4dtubzbw98lwvylua.jpg"><figcaption>© Chicago Architecture Biennial / Marcin Cymmer, 2019</figcaption></figure>When Kelly spoke at the event, he shared that in thinking about this next CAB he wanted others to remember that Chicago has made notable efforts to make the city a space for conversation and public creativity in recent years. He cited how the Chicago River has been reclaimed as a public space, the River Walk has been completed, as well as the 606 Trail. More pedestrian bridges have been built. Groundwork has been laid in order to foster ideas and public contributions from area artists like Theaster Gates, Nick Cave, and Hebru Brantley. For Kelly a critical component of these examples is that they are public and they are free. They allow us all to explore and understand our common ground.More opportunities lie ahead for dialogue that can not only benefit Chicago but other urban communities. Dare we say that the mayor must have learned a critical lesson about the true value of public art last year when the public loudly and effectively cried out to prevent the sale of Kerry James Marshall's Knowledge and Wonder.&nbsp;Now Director Yesomi Umolu and co-curators Sepake Angiama and Paulo Tavares are tasked with overseeing the group of contributors who will produce meaningful new commissioned projects for the Biennial. Early highlights are:• Reflections on landscapes belonging and sovereignty that challenge existing, narrow definitions of land as property and commodity from Wolff Architects (Capetown, South Africa), Territorial Agency – John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Ronnskog (London, UK) and Theaster Gates (Chicago).&nbsp;• Explorations of sites of memory – and the politics of remembering and/or forgetting in contested spaces – by contributors CAMP (Mumbai, India), Center for Spatial Research (New York, NY), MASS Design Group (Boston, MA/Poughkeepsie, NY/Kigali, Rwanda), Tanya Lukin Linklater and Tiffany Shaw-Collinge (Ontario, Canada and Alberta, Canada) and Wednelien van Oldenborgh (Rotterdam, Netherlands)The Chicago Architecture Biennial is the largest architecture and design exhibition in North America. The exhibition is free and open to the public. Over the coming months the Biennial will announce the full list of contributors and key programming for this year's edition.&nbsp;Whatever you call it, the Chicago Architecture Biennial promises to construct a provocative and engaging means of welcoming visitors from around the world in just a few months.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Biennial will take place from September 19 through January 5, 2020, and the opening with align with the eighth annual EXPO CHICAGO, which will run September 19–22, 2019 at Navy Pier.For more information visit <a href="http://chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org">chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org</a></body></html>

You Say Biennial, The Mayor Says Biennale

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418118/gqx7gucil5dr9gtajra8.jpg"><figcaption>The MoCP Silent Auction on Thursday, February 28</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) held DARKROOM, their annual benefit auction, on&nbsp;Thursday, February 28 at Venue SIX10, bringing in over $230,000 to support the museum. Funds raised at DARKROOM will provide critical support for the museum's exhibitions, collections, and community engagement initiatives in 2019. Highlights of the evening included a VIP hour conversation between MoCP chief curator and deputy director Karen Irvine and Silver Camera Awardee Lalla Essaydi about Essaydi’s photographic contributions. &nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418119/bcpinzs69efuuhn81zaa.jpg"><figcaption>(From left) Karen Irvine, MoCP chief curator and deputy director; Lalla Essaydi, MoCP Silver Camera Awardee; Bob Wislow, chair of the MoCP Advisory Board</figcaption></figure>Other high points of the evening included a ceremony honoring artist Lalla Essaydi with the Silver Camera Award, followed by a rousing Raise the Paddle, that raised over $20,000 to support MoCP education initiatives, including expanded teen programs and a bus subsidy program aimed at bringing more Chicago Public School students to the museum from underserved communities. Co-chaired by Ted Keim and Marisa Murillo, with honorary co-chairs Bill and Vicki Hood, DARKROOM 2019 hosted over 300 guests, who enjoyed an elegant evening celebration of photography while supporting the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the only museum of its kind in the region.The silent auction this year featured photography by Lalla Essaydi, Sandro Miller, Doug Fogleson, and Beate Gütschow, among many others.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418120/howpfialte1iaa9touix.gif"><figcaption>Sandro Miller, Green Marylin, 2014</figcaption></figure><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418121/nry3vq2t9ys74hlhzv2w.gif"><figcaption>Lalla Essaydi, Les Femmes du Maroc #22B, 2005</figcaption></figure><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418126/cwo1ol8thlsbptv9znsc.gif"><figcaption>Doug Fogelson, Forms and Records No. 5, 2014</figcaption></figure><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418127/uc1l95ug0nemdfduoeyq.gif"><figcaption>Beate Gütschow, HC#5, 2018</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

DARKROOM 2019 Raises Over $230K for MoCP

<html><head></head><body>By CGN STAFF via CAB PR<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418091/wsn00tvrxuixajkuig2w.jpg"></figure>The Chicago Architecture Biennial announced that the curatorial focus of its 2019 edition will be titled&nbsp;…and other such stories. The exhibition, the core of which opens at the Chicago Cultural Center on September 19, 2019 and which aligns once again with <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/expo-chicago">EXPO CHICAGO</a>, will form an expansive and multi-faceted exploration of the field of architecture and the built environment globally, and&nbsp;embraces a broad spectrum of perspectives on architecture —&nbsp;in order to imagine space and the built environment anew.&nbsp; Through a research-led approach, CAB's&nbsp;curatorial team has drawn on the spatial, historical, and socio-economic conditions of Chicago to consider questions of land, memory, rights, and civic participation.&nbsp;Four areas of inquiry emerged as a result of this research — which has also connected Chicago concerns to learning from diverse participants engaged in the cities of Johannesburg, Vancouver, and São Paulo. &nbsp; When it opens this fall, the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial will address the potency of space, architecture, and the natural world through these four frameworks:&nbsp; (1)&nbsp;NoLand Beyond&nbsp;will draw inspiration from indigenous approaches to nature, ecology, and landscape that transcend property ownership (2)&nbsp;Appearances and Erasures&nbsp;will explore both shared and contested memories in consideration of monuments, memorials, and social histories Together (3)&nbsp;Rights and Reclamations&nbsp;and (4)&nbsp;Common Ground&nbsp;will foreground aspects of rights, advocacy, and civic purpose in architectural practice, including affordable and equitable housing.Building from the diverse and international experience of the curatorial team, …and other such stories will engage participants from a wide range of disciplines — both within the traditional field of architecture and from adjacent disciplines — to explore the implications of architecture and the built environment as they relate to land, memory, rights, and civic participation. The team comprises Artistic Director Yesomi Umolu, a contemporary art curator, and co-curators Sepake Angiama, a curator whose work centers on education, and Paulo Tavares, a Brazil-based architect and academic.“The Biennial is a centerpiece of the Chicago cultural landscape, bringing the entire city together to celebrate, explore, and understand the legacy and impact of architecture. As a city with an architectural history that forms such a strong foundation of our identity, we are thrilled that this year’s team will shine a light on Chicago as a global convener for leading architectural thought,” noted Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.The Biennial is the largest architecture and design exhibition in North America. It is designed to deepen and expand the dialogue on architecture and the built environment with both industry leaders and everyday citizens, envisioning and sparking a future of architecture that is, first and foremost, shared, inclusive, diverse, sustainable, and equitable. Visit the Biennial's website to view the complete <a href="https://chicagoarchitecturebiennial.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=51d9a79e08fd7f7dbb49c27a6&amp;id=efcf8d70db&amp;e=3dc58ca038">news release</a> and <a href="https://chicagoarchitecturebiennial.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=51d9a79e08fd7f7dbb49c27a6&amp;id=9ced8669c6&amp;e=3dc58ca038">curatorial statement</a>.</body></html>

Chicago Architecture Biennial Announces 2019 Title and Focus

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418038/cinixpz3eqckubjkdpic.gif"></figure>Last week the Chicago Artists Coalition announced that the popular Chicago Artists Resource—the city’s platform for posting arts-related jobs, calls for artists, and open studio and performance space—is 'moving.' In the next couple of weeks CAC’s website (<a href="http://chicagoartistscoalition.org/">chicagoartistscoalition.org</a>)&nbsp;and Chicago Artists Resource (<a href="http://chicagoartistsresource.org/">chicagoartistsresource.org</a>) will merge into one site.&nbsp;Started in 2004 by the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago Artists Resource, AKA “CAR,” is a platform where artists and arts administrators across a variety of disciplines are able to find the resources to help grow and strengthen their careers. CAR was bequeathed by the city to CAC in 2012, where it has operated since as a separate program of Chicago Artists Coalition. Since its launch 15 years ago, CAR has become one of the most commonly used sites for artists and arts professionals in Chicago to post and find jobs and calls for artists, publicize events, and seek open studio spaces.“As CAC prepared for a brand refresh and new website that would be built on a more adaptable and up-to-date platform, it seemed appropriate to merge the two sites into one site that could both operate more smoothly and help us to better focus our efforts to serve Chicago artists,” said CAC's Executive Director, Caroline Older. “We are excited to be able to continue to offer the resources of CAR on an updated and more user-friendly website.”“Since launching CAR, I have been pleased to see it develop into a go-to resource for Chicago's artists.&nbsp; It makes sense that Chicago Artists Coalition is merging CAR into its own brand and website, and&nbsp;I am thrilled that it will&nbsp;remain an available and growing resource for artists of all disciplines” said Barbara Koenen, who founded and co-developed CAR while working at the Department of Cultural Affairs.While the website <a href="http://chicagoartistsresource.org/">chicagoartistsresource.org</a> will no longer exist on its own, the majority of the resources it offers will remain available on the CAC website, under a new section dedicated to jobs, calls, and space finder. Users will continue to be able to post jobs, calls, and spaces as they have in the past, and accounts that have been active within the last year will remain in place.&nbsp;Subscribers will&nbsp;continue to receive the bi-weekly newsletter, which features the latest opportunities for artists. Users, however, will no longer be able to post events on the website. They will be able to do so on the Chicago Arists Resource facebook group, and this group will remain in place indefinitely.To design and build the new site, CAC hired Legion Collective. “For us, the redesign provided an opportunity to merge two visually distinct communities into one unified experience,” said Jonathan Sluys, Partner and Executive Creative Director at Legion. “While they each seem quite distinct from afar, they both serve the same mission: to help artists live, work and thrive in the city. Now they also speak with one voice and on the same platform.&nbsp; Launch of the new, merged sites will take place between late February and early March, 2019. The current CAR site will offer a link redirecting users to the new site for one year.</body></html>

Chicago Artists Resource Moving to Chicago Artists Coalition Website

<html><head></head><body>The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago announced today that it has received a $1M gift from Joe and Rika Mansueto—the largest in the society's 104-year history—to underwrite the Ren's publications program for the next 10 years.&nbsp;Solveig&nbsp;Øvstebø, Executive Director of the Renaissance Society, announced the establishment of the Joe and Rika Mansueto Publications Program following the $1 million pledge from the Chicago-based founder of Morningstar and his wife. This transformative gift secures the independent&nbsp;contemporary art museum’s publishing activities for the next&nbsp;10 years and marks the largest single commitment in its 104-year history.Anna Searle Jones,&nbsp;Director of Communications, shared, "This major gift is not only transformative for the Ren, but significant in the philanthropic landscape for its commitment to the depth and substance of our work."Known around the world for its remarkable support of artists, the Renaissance Society has established itself as a unique platform for ground-breaking creative experimentation and deep inquiry. Publishing has been at the core of the institution’s activity since its founding in 1915, and it has produced significant exhibitions and accompanying publications with artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Mike Kelley, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Kerry James Marshall, and Jennifer Packer. Distributed internationally, the museum’s books often offer the&nbsp;first scholarly reflections on artists' projects and capture pivotal moments in their careers.<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418047/twbe0juwch4ncp6rtuk2.jpg"><figcaption>Solveig&nbsp;Øvstebø, Executive Director of the Renaissance Society</figcaption></figure>"The Renaissance Society is driven by an unwavering faith in&nbsp;artists and their ideas. We support them to produce new art and, with it, new knowledge, new discourse, and new ways of thinking.” says Øvstebø.&nbsp;“Nowhere is this more evident than in our books, and the Joe and Rika Mansueto Publications Program provides long-term resources to continue to produce and share more broadly&nbsp;this important work."“The Ren’s publications not only document the exhibitions, but expand the critical conversations that begin with them, and enter them into the art historical record. We are deeply grateful to Joe and Rika for their generous gift, which ensures the continued significance of the museum's output," added Richard Wright, President of the Board of Directors.The Mansuetos’ donation follows the success of the Renaissance Society’s Next Century Fund, a $5 million campaign launched in conjunction with the museum’s 100th anniversary in 2015. With lead gifts from&nbsp;the Edlis Neeson Foundation, the Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation, and the Zell Family Foundation, this fund has enabled a significant increase in the production of new artworks by artists including Kevin Beasley, B. Ingrid Olson, and Shadi Habib Allah, and accompanying public programs.The Joe and Rika Mansueto Publications Program&nbsp;will make it possible for the Renaissance Society to publish a monograph,&nbsp;catalogue, or artist book to accompany each exhibition, typically four per year. These funds will also enable the museum to commission more contributors per book, and to work with a wider range of designers and printers to produce them.Recent Renaissance Society publications include:&nbsp;<ul><li>Let me consider it from here&nbsp;(2019), featuring new poems from Geoffrey G. O'Brien, Simone White, and Lynn Xu</li><li>Sadie Benning: Shared Eye (2018), with texts from Julie Ault, John Corbett, and Christine Mehring</li><li>Richard Rezac: Address&nbsp;(2018), with new essays from&nbsp;Matthew Goulish,&nbsp;Jennifer R. Gross, and James Rondeau</li><li>Robert Grosvenor&nbsp;(2018), with contributions from&nbsp;Yve-Alain Bois,&nbsp;Bruce Hainley,&nbsp;Susan Howe, and John Yau</li><li>Jennifer Packer: Tenderheaded&nbsp;(2018) featuring a&nbsp;conversation between the&nbsp;artist and Kerry James Marshall, essays by Jessica Bell Brown and April Freely, and&nbsp;a poem by Safiya Sinclair.</li></ul>Forthcoming titles include:<ul><li>Alejandro Cesarco: Song&nbsp;(2019), with new texts by&nbsp;Julie Ault and Wayne Koestenbaum</li><li>Liz Magor: BLOWOUT (2019), including new essays by Sheila Heti and Mitch Speed</li><li>Unthought Environments&nbsp;(2019), featuring contributions from Ina Blom, Keller Easterling, and John Durham Peters</li><li>LaToya Ruby Frazier (2019)</li></ul>&nbsp;ABOUT THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETYFor over&nbsp;100 years, the Renaissance Society has been at&nbsp;the forefront of presenting vital artistic practices from around the world. The&nbsp;original intentions of the Renaissance Society still ring true: to present art&nbsp;that engages with key questions of our times, to support ambitious&nbsp;experimentation, and to provide a rich interdisciplinary context for&nbsp;discovering and discussing visual art. Today “the Ren”—as it is affectionately known—is committed to supporting ambitious artistic experimentation, primarily through the commissioning of new works. In addition to the exhibition and publishing programs, the independent, non-collecting museum hosts lectures, concerts, performances, screenings, and readings.All of the Renaissance Society’s exhibitions and events are free and open to the public.&nbsp;&nbsp;Top image: Renaissance Society publications. Photo: Useful Art Services</body></html>

$1M Gift Underwrites The Renaissance Society's Publications Program

Below is CGN's summary of end of &nbsp;2018&nbsp;/ early 2019 art&nbsp;community news and updates.&nbsp;To send us your news&nbsp;<a href="mailto:info@chicagogallerynews.com?subject=For%20CGN%20News%20Updates">email us</a>.&nbsp;<h3>&nbsp;</h3>&nbsp;<h2>• Anniversaries</h2>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/carl-hammer-gallery">• Carl Hammer Gallery</a> turns 40 in 2019! Special exhibition plans for the fall will be forthcoming.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/thomas-masters-gallery">• Thomas Masters Gallery</a> marked 25 years this past fall. The gallery has been located in Old Town since its founding.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/filter-photo">• Filter Photo</a> celebrates its 10th anniversary, and the 11th Filter Photo Festival, in fall 2019.<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/water-street-studios">• Water Street Studios</a> in Batavia marks 10 years as well in 2019. They will host a 10 Year Anniversary Celebration on Friday, September 13, 2019.&nbsp;<h2>• Gallery Updates</h2>&nbsp;• <a href="http://www.printworkschicago.com">Printworks Gallery</a> in River North closed its doors at the end of 2018 after more than 35 years on Superior Street. Co-founder Bob Hiebert wrote a letter to friends that said, "As some of you may have already heard, that for personal and family reasons, Printworks Gallery will close at the end of 2018. It’s been a great run, but all good things do come to an end. A big thanks to everyone for your support, encouragement and friendship." Hiebert founded the much loved space with Sidney Block, who died at 91 in late 2015.• <a href="http://galeriewaterton.com">Galerie Waterton</a>, a neighbor of Printworks at 311 W Superior, closed its doors in October. Owner Francois Grossas said he plans to make a change to his gallery operation in 2019 and that he will announce new plans hopefully this year.&nbsp;• After more than three decades in Chicago, Martha Schneider of <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/schneider-gallery">Schneider Gallery</a> will continue her legacy in 2019 as a private dealer focusing on photography. The gallery has been located in River North for more than 30 years, presenting more than 150 exhibitions. Martha will continue to work with artists on special projects and is now also available for private client consultations. The River North space at 770 N LaSalle opens a final exhibition on January 11 featuring photography by Whit Forrester. A closing sale and reception takes place Friday, March 8, 5–7:30pm• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/weinberg-newton-gallery">Weinberg/Newton</a> will be moving locations in June 2019. The final exhibition in the current River North space runs from January 18 to April 13. The first exhibition in the new, still to-be-announced space will open in September 2019.• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/catherine-edelman-gallery">Catherine Edelman Gallery</a> announced in 2018 its plans to move to a new space in West Town, and now the official opening date will take place this spring. Two final exhibitions in the River North space open Friday, January 11; one features CEG artists and one showcases work by photographer Michael Kenna.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/pagoda-red--2">• Pagoda Red </a>closed up its Winnetka and Fulton Market locations last year and moved to their 15,000 sq. ft. Chicago bow-truss warehouse near the north branch of the Chicago River. The new rough luxe gallery and studio offers a more up-close experience with all the objects owner Betsy Nathan has collected over 20+ years. With the consolidation comes a greater online reach, as they build beyond &nbsp;brick and mortar. Clients may enjoy the newest arrivals online at <a href="https://pagodared.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01c85860fc1deefa98b04e635&amp;id=5ea7404f6c&amp;e=3e481c464e">pagodared.com </a>and read the stories of favorite&nbsp;artists &amp; designers on their <a href="https://pagodared.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=01c85860fc1deefa98b04e635&amp;id=2ba6216520&amp;e=3e481c464e">blog.</a>• <a href="http://www.corbettvsdempsey.com">Corbett vs Dempsey</a> has just moved from N. Ashland Ave. to the Kinzie Corridor at 2156 West Fulton St.•<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/the-golden-triangle"> The Golden Triangle </a>has opened a sister store, Golden Triangle Hang Dong (Thailand).&nbsp;The store officially launches in January of 2019 and will showcase a global collection of antiques, vintage furniture and contemporary art. GTHD is located 10 minutes south of Chiang Mai International Airport in the famous art and handicrafts district of Hang Dong.<h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>• CGN Welcomes</h2>&nbsp;We are thrilled to have 19 new spaces in our 2019 CGN Arts Guide (shipping from the printer now!)&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/the-art-center-highland-park--3">The Art Center Highland Park</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/arts-of-life">Arts of Life</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/chicago-truborn">Chicago Truborn</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/the-compassion-factory-art-gallery-studio">The Compassion Factory</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/melanee-cooper-gallery">Melanee Cooper Gallery</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/eat-paint-studio">Eat Paint Studio</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/goldfinch">Goldfinch</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/hilton-asmus-contemporary">Hilton | Asmus Contemporary</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/les-enluminures">Les Enluminures</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/alan-koppel-gallery">Alan Koppel Gallery</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/monique-meloche-gallery">Monique Meloche Gallery</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/oliva-gallery">Oliva Gallery</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/one-after-909">One After 909</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/sarah-raskey-fine-art">Sarah Raskey Fine Art</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/spudnik-press-cooperative">Spudnik Press Cooperative</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/studio-oh">Gallery Studio Oh!</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/tarble-arts-center">Tarble Arts Center</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/wantoot">Wantoot Gallery</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/water-street-studios">Water Street Studios</a><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>• Awards and Grants</h2>&nbsp;• Chicago Artists Coalition (CAC) announced in October 2018 the <a href="http://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-njtllkl-dlvzir-y/">SPARK Microgrant</a>: a new, unrestricted award opportunity for emerging Chicago-based visual artists who identify as ALAANA (Asian, Latinx, Arab, African diaspora or Native), an artist with a disability, or as a self-taught or informally trained artist who is striving to make their art practice a primary vocation. This program reaffirms CAC’s commitment to emerging artists of Chicago and demonstrates the organization’s desire to directly address the historical barriers that have prevented the arts in this city from reflecting the demographic of diverse makers that call it home.• The Smart Museum at the Univ. of Chicago and Gallery 400 at UIC &nbsp;both won <a href="http://www.joycefdn.org/news/2019-joyce-awards-winners">$50,000 Joyce Awards</a> The annual grants from Chicago’s Joyce Foundation create new works reflecting and engaging multi-cultural communities. Smart Museum will commissions artist Emmanuel Pratt and Perry Ave. Commons youth to build an exhibit at an abandoned house there. Gallery 400 collaborates with playwright Adela Goldbardto stage The Last Judgment and a pyrotechnic performance in the Little Village neighborhood<h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>• Other News</h2>&nbsp;• SOFA Chicago announced that Donna Davies is stepping down as Group Show Director. The SOFA group shared "We are excited for her to start this next chapter in her career; however, her professionalism, knowledge and graciousness will be missed. We are extremely thankful for the years of leadership Donna has contributed to our art fairs and wish her the best in her new endeavor."&nbsp;• EXPO CHICAGO announced Stephanie Cristello as Artistic Director,&nbsp;Kathleen Rapp as Managing Director – VIP Relations, and&nbsp;Jeff Rhodes as Managing Director – Operations &amp; Exhibitor Relations. EXPO also named Naima J. Keith, Deputy Director and Chief Curator at The California African American Museum (CAAM) and Co-Artistic Director of Prospect.5 as the Curator for EXPO CHICAGO’s 2019 EXPOSURE section. The EXPOSURE section, installed on the main floor of the exposition, features solo and two-artist presentations from galleries eight years and younger.• Hindman LLC announced this month that it has acquired auction houses Leslie Hindman Auctioneers and Cowan's Auctions. The new venture brings together two of American &nbsp;auction firms, uniting a nationwide network of specialists and resources. Leslie Hindman founded Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in 1982 in Chicago. Wes Cowan founded Cowan's Auctions in 1995 in Cincinnati. Both will remain intimately involved in developing the strategy and vision of Hindman LLC where Leslie Hindman will serve on the Board as Co-Chair and Wes Cowan as Vice Chair. Hindman LLC will create one of the largest auction firms in America with its combined expertise and footprint. It will be led by CEO Thomas Galbraith, who will work closely with senior leadership at both companies to oversee the collaboration.&nbsp;

In the News: Updates from the CGN Art Community Vol. 4

This Monday evening&nbsp;3Arts,&nbsp;the Chicago-based nonprofit grantmaking organization,&nbsp;awarded 20 Chicago artists with unrestricted grants at the&nbsp;11th&nbsp;annual 3Arts Awards Celebration, which took place&nbsp;at the Museum of Contemporary Art. The celebration honored the ten annual 3Arts Awards recipients along with ten recipients of&nbsp;Make a Wave—a unique&nbsp;artist-to-artist giving initiative.3Arts is a nonprofit organization that advocates for Chicago’s women artists, artists of color, and artists with disabilities who work in the performing, teaching, and visual arts. By providing cash awards, project funding, residency fellowships, professional development, and promotion, 3Arts helps artists take risks, experiment, and build momentum in their careers.10 artists were awarded&nbsp;$25,000 cash grants, and&nbsp;$1,000 awards were given to 10 other artists as part of a peer-to-peer giving program (called&nbsp;Make A Wave)3Arts has distributed more than $3 million in total funding to more than 600 Chicago artists over the past eleven years and awarded $260,000 on Monday night&nbsp;alone.“Championing Chicago artists is a privilege like no other. We are thrilled to present our awardees with opportunities that they profoundly deserve,” said&nbsp;Esther Grisham Grimm, Executive Director of 3Arts. “Last year’s launch of&nbsp;Make a Wave&nbsp;made it abundantly clear that there is nothing quite as exciting as witnessing artists offering support to other artists by paying it forward and encouraging them to dream big.”With Make a Wave past 3Arts Awards recipients select another ten Chicago artists to receive surprise $1,000 awards, in effect sending a wave of support through the creative community in Chicago.&nbsp;&nbsp;The 2018 Recipients of $25,000 3Arts Awards are:&nbsp;Dancers and dance educators&nbsp;T. Ayo Alston&nbsp;and&nbsp;Anna Martine Whitehead; musicians&nbsp;Brittany “BrittanE” Edwards&nbsp;and&nbsp;Ben LaMar Gay; teaching artists&nbsp;Leida “Lady Sol” Garcia&nbsp;and&nbsp;Elgin Bokari T. Smith; playwright and actor Sandra Delgado&nbsp;and costume designer&nbsp;Christine Pascual; and visual artists&nbsp;Dianna Frid&nbsp;and&nbsp;Hương Ngô.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3209/original/headshot-huong-ngo.gif" alt=""><figcaption>Artist Hương Ngô</figcaption></figure><figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3208/original/dianna-frid-headshot.gif" alt=""><figcaption>Artist Diana Frid</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;The 2018 Recipients of $1,000 Make A Wave:The recipients of&nbsp;Make a Wave&nbsp;include&nbsp;music artists: Nura Aly, Jo de Presser (aka Marlon Billups), Joelle Lamarre, Jenna M. Lyle, Carolyn O’Brien;&nbsp;theater artists:&nbsp;Krystel V. McNeil, Ana Santos;&nbsp;visual artists:&nbsp;Silvia Inés Gonzalez, Krystal Grover-Webb, and Gonzalo Escobar Mora.&nbsp;For more information about 3Arts&nbsp;visit&nbsp;<a href="http://www.3arts.org/">www.3arts.org</a>

A Wave of Prosperity: 3Arts Awards Artists with Financial Support

Kerry James Marshall says he is done making public art workOne of&nbsp;Kerry James Marshall’s first reactions to news that Chicago intended to sell a public library mural he painted was to swear off making any more public art. “It just seemed like a way of exploiting the work of artists in the city for short-term gain in a really shortsighted kind of way,” he said of the plan to auction off “Knowledge and Wonder,” which Marshall painted for the Legler Branch public library on the West Side, in order to reap an expected multimillion dollar windfall that would pay for upgrading the Legler. “And so I made a decision at that time I would never do another public work.”By Steve Johnson, Via Chicago Tribune<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-kerry-james-marshall-quitting-public-art-after-controversy-1107-story.html">Read More</a> &nbsp; &nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3206/original/https-252f-252fblogs-images-forbes-com-252fyjeanmundelsalle-252ffiles-252f2018-252f10-252fdsc8013-1200x800.gif" alt=""></figure>&nbsp;Chicago-Based Artist And Interior Designer Linc Thelen Transformed A Church Into A Modern ResidenceDirecting the renovations including the initial demolition phase, 47-year-old Chicago-based architect, interior designer and artist&nbsp;Linc Thelen&nbsp;worked with local Chicago firm Scrafano Architects for the architectural drawings. Having graduated with a BFA from Northern Illinois University and studied art in Italy and France, Thelen has been painting for over two decades and transposes artistic principles of composition, texture, form and light to three-dimensional spaces. In the interior design business for the past 17 years, he describes how his fine art background influences his design work to give him a unique vision..By&nbsp;Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/yjeanmundelsalle/2018/11/01/chicago-based-artist-and-interior-designer-linc-thelen-transformed-a-church-into-a-modern-residence/#7f2ba28a5fe8">Read More</a> &nbsp; &nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3205/original/screen-shot-2018-11-06-at-1-57-33-pm.gif" alt=""></figure>Nick Cave Uses His Capital to Help Aspiring CreatorsBased for more than 20 years on Chicago’s South Loop, this 59-year-old artist has recently consolidated his studio, the couple’s home and Mr. Faust’s design studio in this 20,000-square-foot former mason’s workshop in South Old Irving Park, a largely working-class neighborhood across town. Named Facility, the space has been conceived as an incubator for collaboration — to inspire “a young artist’s aspirations or put designers and chefs and dancers in one room and see what using the building as a facility makes,” Mr. Faust, 51, said during a tour of their just-renovated ground-floor studio and upstairs residential loft. A cavernous space downstairs could also easily host a fashion show, musical or dance performance.By&nbsp;Hilarie M. Sheets, The New York Times<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/arts/design/nick-cave-chicago.html">Read More</a> &nbsp; &nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3207/original/warhol-main.gif" alt=""></figure>Andy Warhol sales are in a rut. Can a show bring mojo back?The tome announces the upcoming retrospective of one of the most iconic American artists: Andy Warhol. His first U.S. survey in almost 30 years opens next month at the Whitney Museum of American Art with major supporters including hedge fund manager Ken Griffin and Bank of America Corp. Top museums and private collections around the world have loaned paintings, drawings, sculpture and films.Via Crain's Chicago Business<a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/arts-entertainment/andy-warhol-sales-are-rut-can-show-bring-mojo-back">Read More</a> &nbsp; &nbsp;

News From Around the Art World: November 6, 2018

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417714/om9gtzpwhesaxscxaz6x.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;By GINNY VAN ALYEAJust a few weeks ago the international art world scratched it head when the news was shared that the City of Chicago&nbsp;decided to sell a monumental&nbsp;public work by artist Kerry James Marshall, which the city commissioned&nbsp;for the Legler Branch Library in West Garfield Park in 1995 for $10,000. The initial estimates were that the work&nbsp;could sell at auction for&nbsp;$10–15 million and the&nbsp;painting&nbsp;was to&nbsp;be auctioned off by Christie's. Mayor&nbsp;Rahm Emmanuel&nbsp;said the money from the sale would be used to improve and update the west side&nbsp;library as well as to invest in up and coming artists who may some day gain international renown like Marshall has.But the public outcry was loud and clear. Following a record-setting&nbsp;sale by the City,&nbsp;earlier this year, of another work&nbsp;by Marshall (Past Times&nbsp;sold for $21.1 million at Sotheby’s to Sean Combs (AKA P-Diddy)),&nbsp;the optics of quickly selling another unique cultural asset for vague budgetary purposes were less than positive. Chicago prizes its public art collection and has built a stellar reputation as one of the best spots in the world to view and appreciate&nbsp;public art created by a range of artists, from emerging to blue chip. To think that the most financially valuable works could be carved up and sold to the highest bidder was deeply upsetting, especially to the artist who created this most recent work destinted for the auction block.&nbsp;Marshall was quoted as saying,&nbsp;“I am certain they could get more money if they sold the Picasso sculpture in Daley Plaza.”Now, just over a week before the work was to be sold,&nbsp;Mayor Rahm Emanuel has changed his mind, managing to keep in tact his otherwise positive reputation as a civic leader and man who is supportive of arts and culture in the city. The Mayor&nbsp;made the decision to pull Marshall's Knowledge and Wonder&nbsp;from the Nov. 15 auction at Christie’s in New York City.In Monday's Chicago Tribune Mayor Emanuel&nbsp;admitted,&nbsp;“I was swimming and thought, ‘This is not what I wanted, given the city’s contributions to public art, and Kerry’s a friend and also a great ambassador for Chicago,’” Emanuel said Sunday afternoon. “I reached out to him and said, ‘Look, I don’t want this. If you’re not happy, I don’t want to go forward.’”The sale was intended to raise money for the library it was commissioned for, but instead the work will be reinstalled in the Legler as soon as possible, and now&nbsp;the mayor said it will also have&nbsp;additional security to protect it. A revised plan to support the library is being evaluated.Chicago's perpetual struggle of being the second (or third) city when compared to its coastal peers means&nbsp;we are always trying to make the case to students, individuals, families and businesses&nbsp;(hi Amazon!)&nbsp;that being and staying here is worth it in so many ways. In this case, score one for keeping a big piece of Chicago right where it belongs.&nbsp;Read the Chicago Tribune story <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-city-halts-auction-kerry-james-marshall-painting-1105-story.html?fbclid=IwAR1OEac0Loy3NIv78d7Dv1M7KiI4gvBOsvGX6gRXo20x0WaJYVGMsTj4ktg">here</a>.&nbsp; &nbsp;Top image:&nbsp;Kerry James Marshall,&nbsp;Knowledge &amp; Wonder&nbsp;(1995)&nbsp;(via&nbsp;Christie’s)&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Mayor Reverses Decision to Auction Kerry James Marshall Public Art

Chicago is currently considering a public art registry in response to &#39;accidental&#39; mural removals and surface scrubbing that has taken place this year. What city workers mistook for every day &#39;nusiance&#39; graffiti was in some cases much loved &ndash; and even commissioned &ndash;&nbsp;street art created by artists from around the city. This past spring, overexuberant and prevasive efforts to spiff up the area around Amazon&#39;s hoped-for new northside&nbsp;home, should it choose Chicago for HQ2, led to the City&#39;s&nbsp;Streets and Sanitation department taking down a work by French&nbsp;artist Blek le Rat at the Cards Against Humanity offices. Blek le Rat has exhibited with Chicago&#39;s <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/vertical-gallery">Vertical Gallery</a> and is widely known as the Godfather of modern street art.&nbsp;

A decade-old mural&nbsp;in Wicker Park, this one by acclaimed Chicago-based&nbsp;street artist&nbsp;Hebru Brantley, was accidentally painted over (after first being vandalized) by city workers who mistook it for graffiti earlier this year. The mural, which depicts Brantley&#39;s signature Flyboy characters, was one of the artist&#39;s&nbsp;earliest. This week Brantley completed a&nbsp;new mural in the original location,&nbsp;funded by Wicker Park Bucktown Special Service Area (SSA) #33. The community missed the work so much once it was covered up that&nbsp;they made a point of funding its replacement.

&ldquo;Public art is a vital part of the Wicker Park and Bucktown neighborhoods. Supporting and maintaining these works has always been a major part of our mission&mdash;the streets are a public art museum that we are constantly curating,&rdquo; said WPB SSA #33 Commission Chair&nbsp;Brent Norsman. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re thrilled Hebru Brantley was able to return and create this new piece, and we&rsquo;re working with Alderman Brian Hopkins and other city officials to ensure that public murals like Brantley&rsquo;s will not be mistaken for graffiti in the future.&rdquo;&nbsp;

More murals have been coverd up this year, which is why the city and the Department of Cultural Affairs are trying to make an effort to designate which works are also art that must be preserved. The proposed ordinance states,&nbsp;&quot;The owner of&nbsp;any building or&nbsp;structure that&nbsp;has art&nbsp;on it&nbsp;may voluntarily register with&nbsp;the&nbsp;department of streets and sanitation by filing a registration statement on a form provided by the&nbsp;department. The registration remains valid until the owner notifies the department to remove&nbsp;the building or structure from the registry provided for in this paragraph.&quot; The hope is also that a registry will then be&nbsp;publicly available on the DCASE web site&nbsp;as well as&nbsp;searchable with a mapping system.&nbsp;

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Oops I (Had to Do) It Again - Hebru Brantley Repaints Mural Covered by City

<h3>Below is CGN&#39;s summary of July 2018&nbsp;art&nbsp;community news and updates.&nbsp;</h3>

<h3>To send us your news&nbsp;<a href="mailto:info@chicagogallerynews.com?subject=For%20CGN%20News%20Updates">email us</a>.&nbsp;</h3>

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<h2>&bull; Anniversaries</h2>

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/arc-gallery">ARC Gallery </a>is celebrating 45 years as an artist-run gallery this summer. On July 21 they held&nbsp;a Summer Evening Gala fundraiser and celebration in their in-progress space at 1463 W. Chicago Ave. in West Town, where they will be moving soon from their former location on N. Damen.

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<h2>&bull; Art World Moves and&nbsp;Updates</h2>

&bull;&nbsp;CGN&nbsp;is moving its office&nbsp;as of August 1!&nbsp;We will be located at 858 N. Clark Street, Ste. 204 (60610) near the Newberry Library. Please come say hi or stop in to help us rehang dozens of past magazine covers!&nbsp;

&bull; <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/catherine-edelman-gallery">Catherine Edelman Gallery</a>, which opened in&nbsp;River North at 300 West Superior Street in the fall of 1987 and specializes in photography,&nbsp;is moving to a new location in West Town in January 2019.

The gallery will close at the end of 2018&nbsp;and reopen at 1637 W. Chicago Ave. just east of the galleries at 1709-11 W. Chicago.

&bull;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/pagoda-red--2">PAGODA RED </a>is&nbsp;moving from Winnetka to Chicago.&nbsp;On August 10, the collection from the Winnetka gallery moves to Pagoda Red&#39;s Lincoln Park&nbsp;warehouse at Webster &amp; Elston&nbsp;where&nbsp;their&nbsp;entire collection will be open to the public this&nbsp;fall. Until then&nbsp;you are welcome in&nbsp;our Fulton Market gallery and garden at 400 N.&nbsp;Morgan, Chicago.

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<h2>&bull; Call for Artists</h2>

<img alt="" data-caption="Fermilab 2015 AIR Lindsay Olson, Particle Soup, Cotton, linen, lace, Acrylic, DMC embroidery floss on linen, 22” x 30”, 2014" data-rich-file-id="2892" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2892/original/particle-soup-full-size.jpg" />

&bull; Submissions for the artist-in-residence program at Fermilab&nbsp;are due&nbsp;Sept 1. Past residents have included&nbsp;Jim Jenkins, AIR 2017, and Lindsay Olson AIR 2015. &nbsp;

Fermilab is America&rsquo;s national laboratory dedicated to particle physics research. To initiate and stimulate communication and interactions among scientists, artists and the public, the laboratory has created an Artist-in-Residence program and seeks applications for the 2019 cycle. The Fermilab artist in residence will interact with scientists at the laboratory, learn about their research, see how it connects to society. Then use this information to create a body of work, leading to presentations in the community and possibly an exhibition of the artwork at Fermilab. A small stipend will be provided by the Fermi Research Alliance.

Applications and questions for the 2019 Artist-in-Residence program should be submitted to <a href="mailto:art@fnal.gov?subject=Fermilab%20AIR%202019">art@fnal.gov</a>&nbsp;Artists will be notified before November 10, 2018. More info may be found <a href="http://events.fnal.gov/art-gallery/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/AIR-2019.pdf">here</a>.&nbsp;

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<h2>&bull; Art&nbsp;Awards and&nbsp;Acquisitions</h2>

&bull; Northern Trust&nbsp;announced on July 9 that the&nbsp;Northern Trust Purchase Prize&nbsp;will be donated to the&nbsp;Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago&nbsp;during the seventh annual EXPO CHICAGO, the International Exposition of Contemporary and Modern Art, (Sept. 27 &ndash; 30, 2018). As Presenting Sponsor of EXPO CHICAGO, Northern Trust, will purchase the annual gift of artwork from the EXPOSURE section of the exposition, for galleries eight years and younger.&nbsp;The selected artwork will be unveiled on&nbsp;September 28 at 12 p.m.&nbsp;on the Northern Trust Exchange Stage as part of the Exchange by Northern Trust:&nbsp;An Interactive Conversation Around the Art of Collecting&nbsp;program.

&bull; <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/institutions/mana-contemporary">Mana Contemporary</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/institutions/mana-contemporary"> </a>announced on July 9&nbsp;a new residency program in partnership with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). This yearlong residency will run August 1, 2018&ndash;August 1, 2019, and is designed to support the next generation of new media artists.

The first five residents, Cat Bluemke,&nbsp;Jenna Boyles,&nbsp;Minsun Cho,&nbsp;Morgan Green and&nbsp;Joo Young Lee,&nbsp;have been selected by the Mana curatorial team from a pool of graduating candidates nominated by the SAIC graduate department. The program supports interdisciplinary artists and aims to foster innovation, collaboration, and entrepreneurship in the field of new media. As part of the community-based residency, the artists will work together in a collective studio and engage the public through self-generated programming, workshops, and exhibitions. Mana&rsquo;s New Media Program&nbsp;initiative is dedicated to supporting the production and presentation of work that engages the intersection of art and technology.&nbsp;

&bull; <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/document">DOCUMENT</a>&nbsp;shared that&nbsp;Howardena Pindell&#39;s&nbsp;Video Drawings: Abstract (Fish Schooling), 1976 was recently acquired by Milwaukee Art Museum.&nbsp;Geraldo de Barros,&nbsp;Untitled (from Sobras Series), 1996-1998 and&nbsp;Untitled (from Sobras Series), 1996-1998 were recently acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago.&nbsp;

&bull; Two of <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/schneider-gallery">Schneider Gallery&#39;s</a>&nbsp;represented artists, Rania Matar and Ian Van Coller, have both been named Guggenheim Fellows for 2018.&nbsp;

<img alt="" data-caption="Marshall Brown, Dequindre Civic Academy, Detroit" data-rich-file-id="2893" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2893/original/brown.jpg" />

&bull; From <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/western-exhibitions">Western Exhibitions</a>: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art acquired the major components of The Dequindre Civic Academy&nbsp;by Marshall Brown from his presentation at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennial, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography of Columbia College&nbsp;acquired three collages by Brown from his Chimera&nbsp;series that were featured in the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2017. The National Gallery of Art acquired Untitled (Welcome),&nbsp;a 6-color reduction woodblock print, by Stan Shellabarger. The Art Institue of Chicago acquired a work on paper, Tantric Necromantic,&nbsp;by Geoffrey Todd Smith from his recent show Field Streaming at Western Exhibitions. The Smart Museum of Art&nbsp;acquired a drawing by Orkideh Torabi&nbsp;for their Art To Live With Program. 
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&bull; The Field Foundation of Illinois&nbsp;has awarded 3Arts a $25,000 grant to&nbsp;invest in Chicago&#39;s artists of color and their production of new art through the 3AP (3Arts Projects) program, a crowdfunding platform with a built-in match and behind-the-scenes training, video production, and coaching designed to help artists build serious momentum in their careers.

&nbsp;The Siragusa Foundation&nbsp;is partnering with 3Arts to support the one-of-a-kind&nbsp;Make a Wave&nbsp;artist-to-artist-giving program.&nbsp;With the Foundation&#39;s generous $10,000 contribution, every artist who receives a 3Arts Award will be invited to select another Chicago artist to receive a surprise $1,000 grant, sending a wave from artist to artist throughout our city.

Join 3Arts on&nbsp;November 5&nbsp;at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago to meet the 2018 awardees. Tickets go on sale in September at&nbsp;<a href="http://3arts.org">3arts.org</a>&nbsp;To read a 2013 CGN article on 3Arts <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2013/5/3arts-changing-chicago-artists-lives-for-5-years">click here.</a>

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In the News: CGN Art Community Updates Vol. 3, July 2018

<h3>Below is CGN&#39;s summary of recent art-world news and changes.&nbsp;</h3>

<h3>To send us your news&nbsp;<a href="mailto:info@chicagogallerynews.com?subject=News%20Submission&amp;body=Please%20add%20my%20update%20to%20your%20next%20CGN%20news%20summary.">email us</a>.&nbsp;</h3>

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<h3>&bull; Passings</h3>

Sabina Ott, artist, professor and local creative champion died at age 62. After a four-year battle with cancer, Ott passed away at home Tuesday, June 26. She exhibited extensively throughout Chicago any beyond, and she was represented by Aspect/Ratio. <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2018/6/artist-and-professor-sabina-ott-dies-at-62">Read more here.&nbsp;</a>

Long-time&nbsp;art dealer Roy Boyd died on Wednesday nearly four years after closing his eponymous River North gallery. Read CGN&#39;s full tribute <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2018/6/founding-river-north-dealer-roy-boyd-has-died">here</a>.&nbsp;

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<h3>&bull; Art World Moves and&nbsp;Updates</h3>

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/art-services/leslie-hindman-auctioneers--3">Leslie Hindman Auctioneers </a>announced&nbsp;that the firm appointed Thomas Galbraith as Chief Executive Officer, effective June 4, 2018. He succeeds Hindman who founded the firm in 1982. The appointment follows a private equity investment that positions the firm for aggressive growth. 
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Galbraith co-founded The Petraeus Group in 2010. The consulting firm has provided growth and start-up strategies to Steven Murphy &amp; Partners, Art Dubai, Paddle8,&nbsp;Arthena&nbsp;and numerous other luxury brands and VC firms. During this time, Galbraith also served as Managing Director of Paddle8 and prior to that as Director of Global Strategy for Artnet. He was most recently appointed interim CEO by the board of Twyla, a Google&nbsp;Ventures backed&nbsp;startup, tasked with repositioning the company towards a more profitable future.

Hindman will be stepping back from the day-to-day operations of the auction house and&nbsp;said,&nbsp;&ldquo;We are extremely excited to have Thomas join us as CEO. With his experience at the&nbsp;cross section&nbsp;of technology and&nbsp;art, and his reputation as a thought leader in the industry, we are poised for future expansion.&quot; Hindman will still serve as Chair of the firm&#39;s board.

Melanee Cooper Gallery, which was based in Chicago in River North&nbsp;until closing in 2009 when Cooper relocated to California,&nbsp;will be&nbsp;re-opening after a nine year hiatus. Cooper calls her return to her original gallery space at 740 N. Franklin Street &quot;serendipitous.&quot;&nbsp;Cooper is pleased to be among her old neighbors and plans a September 7 opening in conjunction with fellow River North galleries and the River North Design District.&nbsp;

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<h3>&bull; Artist Awards and Exhibitions Elsewhere</h3>

Richard Gray Gallery artist and Stony Island Arts Bank founder&nbsp;Theaster Gates received&nbsp;the Kurt Schwitters Prize.&nbsp;The award ceremony took place on the occasion of&nbsp;Theaster Gates: Black Madonna&nbsp;opening at Sprengel Museum Hannover.&nbsp;Spanning across four European institutions,&nbsp;Black Madonna&nbsp;is a multi-part project that explores the history of the black woman and her image. Additionally Theaster Gates: Black Madonna&nbsp;at the Kunstmuseum Basel&nbsp;takes place in&nbsp;two of the museum&rsquo;s locations.&nbsp;

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Ben Blount, whose exhibition Typecast is on view at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/ben-blount-typecast">Aron Packer Projects</a> in the CGN office through July 28, has a billboard up on the 606 Trail at Kimball Ave. featuring his Make American Great Again art &ndash; read between the lines when you go by.&nbsp;

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Artist&nbsp;Lynn Basa&nbsp;has received the largest public art commission in the history of the Wicker Park and Bucktown neighborhoods for&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wickerparkbucktown.com/art-around-wpb/future/one-big-thing-lynn-basa-s-workers-cottage/">Worker Cottage Parklet</a>, a sculptural installation that pays homage to the traditional Chicago &ldquo;worker cottages&rdquo; frequently found in working- and middle-class neighborhoods in the nineteenth century. The $80,000 commission was awarded to Basa by&nbsp;Wicker Park Bucktown Special Service Area #33, the neighborhood&rsquo;s business improvement district,&nbsp;after an extensive call for artists and jury process led by Chicago art professionals.

Basa&rsquo;s&nbsp;Worker Cottage Parklet&nbsp;will be installed by July 2018 at the highly visible intersection of Milwaukee Avenue and Wood Street in Wicker Park. The intersection was redesigned in 2014 by the Chicago Department of Transportation in collaboration with WPB SSA #33 and 1st Ward Alderman Joe Moreno, to create a safer transit environment and develop a location specifically for a future public artwork.

<img alt="" data-caption="A rendering of Worker Cottage Parklet by Lynn Basa" data-rich-file-id="2839" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2839/original/worker-cottage.jpg" />

A giant silver hand by artist Kavi Gupta Gallery artist&nbsp;Tony Tasset&nbsp;is part of&nbsp;<a href="https://frontart.org">FRONT International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art</a>. When finished, the 7-ton work will stand 21 feet high.&nbsp;FRONT will be held July 14&ndash;Sept. 30 at 18 venues and dozens of sites in downtown Cleveland, Ohio City, University Circle, Akron and Oberlin. (Image pictured at top of page)

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<h3>&bull; Announcements</h3>

<a href="http://www.chicagoartdepartment.org">Chicago Art Department</a> is excited to announce the pilot program for the&nbsp;Core Residency Program,&nbsp;an ambitious intervention in the field, one that will challenge&nbsp;artists, organizers, cultural producers to lead studio work, exhibitions, and public programs around topics that matter. 
 
Each of CAD&#39;s Core Residencies will come with the challenge of exploring inside a specific topic, and&nbsp;will be fully-funded with stipends and budgets to support professional development. Core Stipends will be $2000 per residency, which will include $500 to specifically support professional development enrolling in outside programs at organizations such as Hyde Park Art Center, Lillstreet Art Center, Spudnik Press, and Chicago Artists Coalition. Applications are due&nbsp;July&nbsp;8, 2018.

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Top of page: Tony Tasset&#39;s giant hand sculpture will be installed in Cleveland as part of FRONT

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A mostly monthly round up of news from around the Chicago art world.

In the News: Updates from the CGN Art Community Vol. 2

By GINNY VAN ALYEAVeteran art dealer Roy Boyd passed away this morning, according to friend and long-time gallery artist Betty Cleeland.&nbsp;Boyd is&nbsp;survived by four sisters.Boyd's&nbsp;eponymous&nbsp;gallery, which he opened with his late wife Ann&nbsp;in 1972, closed in October 2014 after 42 years in business.&nbsp;Boyd served as president of the Chicago Art Dealers Association from 2003–2007, and the gallery participated in the original&nbsp;International Art Exposition at Navy Pier in the 1980s&nbsp;as well as Art Chicago and other international art fairs for many years.The Boyds opened Roy Boyd Gallery first&nbsp;in suburban Western Springs, before moving in 1976&nbsp;to downtown Chicago near the original site of the Museum of Contemporary Art&nbsp;(the museum opened in 1967 at 237 East Ontario). In 1979 they moved to West Superior Street to the second floor above Young Hoffman Gallery, along with&nbsp;Jack Lemon's&nbsp;Landfall Press. In a 2012 CGN interview&nbsp;Ann Boyd recalled, "It was a wonderful time. There was hardly any activity during the day, but people who came to see us came for a purpose. We were all feeling pressure to have higher ceilings, more space for art, more elbowroom during openings. Some artists thought we were crazy, until they&nbsp;saw the big spaces and recognized the sense of camraderie. Our insurance when we started was $1,500 a month because our agent thought all of our windows would be smashed." By 1983 16 galleries had opened in what would soon be known as River North.&nbsp;The gallery's ultimate home was at&nbsp;739 N. Wells, where the couple lived in an apartment above the gallery.&nbsp;Boyd&nbsp;opened a second location&nbsp;in Los Angeles from 1981–1993.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2835/original/boyd30th-copy.jpg" alt=""><figcaption>Ann and Roy Boyd with friend Edward Albee (left)</figcaption></figure>Roy became a personal friend&nbsp;during my early years working at Chicago Gallery News and the Chicago Art Dealers Association&nbsp;with Natalie van Straaten, and he continued to be a great supporter&nbsp;throughout my first years as CGN&nbsp;publisher. He was good company, whether he was stopping by our old lower level office on Franklin&nbsp;for a CADA meeeting or just a long chat.One of my favorite memories is from one day in 2007, quite a while before the 2008 presidential election, when attention in town and around the country was growing around Barack Obama. The CGN office was still located &nbsp;at 730 N. Franklin, in the lower level of the Central Arts Building and&nbsp;underneath Andrew Bae Gallery. One of the other tenants in the building was&nbsp;David Axelrod, who was advising Obama at the time. Because his profile was still low, Obama would come to the building for meetings from time to time. One day, while Roy was on my couch for one of our usual chats, we noticed a large SUV pull-up outside the building entrance and saw Obama&nbsp;dash in with his security detail.&nbsp;Others&nbsp;noticed too and&nbsp;gathered to wait&nbsp;in growing numbers. After waiting long enough hoping to&nbsp;glimpse the state senator another time, Roy decided it was time to walk back to the gallery. Wearing his own signature all-black outfit and ball cap, Boyd opened the front door of the Central Arts Building and strode outside into the crowd, which in its frenzy to snap pictures of Obama, ended up with pictures instead of a friendly, but certainly not politically famous, local art dealer, smiling at his mistaken celebrity.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2836/original/roy2.jpg" alt=""></figure>Roy was always good for a joke and a laugh.&nbsp;His openings promoted and honored his artists and&nbsp;served as gatherings for many art world friends. The post-opening dinners he and Ann threw in their apartment above the gallery&nbsp;were a special chance to&nbsp;relax and connect with new friends and old while celebrating the artist of the evening.&nbsp;Boyd's gallery&nbsp;roster was packed with artists who worked primarily in abstraction. Many painted&nbsp;in&nbsp;vibrant colors and used bold textures, while other artists&nbsp;worked in sculpture using wood, or metal.&nbsp;Over the years represented and exhibited&nbsp;artists included, to name a few,&nbsp;William Conger, Sarah Krepp, Betty Cleeland, Roland Ginzel, Daniel Bodner, Jay Phillips, Joan Livingston, Carlos Estrada-Vega,&nbsp;Jerome Powers, Anne Wilson,&nbsp;Mark Arctander,&nbsp;Teo González, Dan Ramirez, Jay Kelly, John Fraser,&nbsp;Mario Trejo,&nbsp;Brigitte Riesebrodt,&nbsp;Buzz Spector, Joel Perlman,&nbsp;Vadim Katznelson, and Markus Linnenbrink. Many area collections began at the Boyds' gallery, as visitors were drawn in as much by the friendly and knowledgeable dealers&nbsp;as the accessible and appealing art.Roy and Ann kept things interesting for the gallery and for themselves until the end, as they continued to take on&nbsp;new artists whose art they just enjoyed and whose friendship they cherished. In 2013 to mark four decades in business,&nbsp;the Boyds let their artists take over the commeorative exhibition. At the time Boyd said,&nbsp;"We're going to just have a group show for our 40th anniversary. We're letting our artists submit their favorite old work, or they can submit something new. We just wanted to recognize the people we've worked so well with."Ann Boyd passed away in April 2013. Roy is now greatly missed as well.&nbsp;This post will be updated as we confirm more details.&nbsp;Top image: Roy and Ann Boyd, 2007.

Roy Boyd Chicago art dealer passed away June 27, 2018

Founding River North Dealer Roy Boyd Has Died

Artist and Columbia College Chicago professor Sabina Ott died today at age 62 following a hard-fought four year battle with cancer. A mentor as well as fun-loving friend to many, she is a creative force who is greatly missed.&nbsp;

Ott was born in New York City and&nbsp;raised in Los Angeles and received her BFA&nbsp;in painting at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1979 before receiving an MFA in painting there in 1981. She made her way to the &quot;third coast&quot; in 2005 to&nbsp;serve&nbsp;as&nbsp;Chair of Art and Design at Columbia College Chicago and she called&nbsp;the city home from then on.&nbsp;

Exhibiting since 1985, Ott has participated in over 100 solo and group exhibitions at institutions in Sao Paulo, Brazil; Auckland, New Zealand; Melbourne, Australia; and many cities across the US. Her work is in numerous museum collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Oakland Museum of Art.&nbsp;In recent years&nbsp;she completed a public art commission for the Chicago Transit Authority and a solo exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center.&nbsp;

In 2011&nbsp;she founded <a href="https://www.terrainexhibitions.com">Terrain Exhibitions</a> with her husband&nbsp;John Paulett, an author&nbsp;and educator. Terrain is&nbsp;a public exhibition space &ndash; Ott&#39;s front lawn &ndash;&nbsp;in suburban Oak Park&nbsp;dedicated to featuring interventions into the conventional landscape of a front yard by emerging as well as established artists who have been invited to create a site-specific work that challenges the space between public and private, decoration and function, figure and ground. Artworks are intended to be accessible 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.&nbsp;

<img alt="" data-caption="Who Cares for the Sky?, at the Hyde Park Art Center, 2016" data-rich-file-id="2837" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2837/original/sabina-ott.jpg" />

In 2016, Ott constructed a massive,&nbsp;scalable installation of polystyrene, plywood, industrial spray foam and paint for an exhibition, Who Cares for the Sky?, at the <a href="http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibition-archive/sabina-ott-who-cares-for-the-sky/?_sf_s=sabina">Hyde Park Art Center</a>. A version of the work, Because the mountains were so high,&nbsp;was recreated for a special project at EXPO Chicago that same year. CGN&#39;s Franck Mercurio wrote <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2016/9/local-artists-create-immersive-environments-at-expo-chicago">about the work</a> as Ott was putting the finishing touches on it:

&quot;Walking through Sabina Ott&rsquo;s grotto-like installation,&nbsp;because the mountains were so high, I ran into the artist herself as she applied finishing touches of white paint to the work&rsquo;s polystyrene and spray foam walls.

&#39;It&rsquo;s not quite done yet,&#39; she said matter-of-factly.

&quot;Ott had borrowed a security guard&rsquo;s stool, using it as an improvised ladder while she touched-up the edges of a video monitor embedded into one of the installation&rsquo;s walls. The Thursday afternoon crowd of art collectors and journalists had just begun to filter through EXPO Chicago&rsquo;s maze of booths. Some people ventured into Ott&rsquo;s installation as the artist continued to work.

&#39;I think I hear my gallerist,&#39;&nbsp;said Ott, as Jefferson Godard of Aspect/Ratio appeared from around the corner.

&#39;Sabina, let&rsquo;s take a walk and see some art!&#39;&nbsp;said Godard.

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In 2019, Ott will be featured in a solo exhibition at <a href="http://www.aspectratioprojects.com">Aspect/Ratio</a>.&nbsp;

To view the many visual tributes to Ott from around the art community, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/sabinaott/">click here</a>.&nbsp;
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Artist and Columbia College Chicago professor Sabina Ott dies

Artist Sabina Ott Dies at 62

<h3>Below is CGN&#39;s summary of recent art-world news and changes. </h3>

<h3>To send us your news <a href="mailto:info@chicagogallerynews.com?subject=Art%20News">email us</a>.&nbsp;</h3>

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<h3>&bull; Anniversaries</h3>

The Randolph Street Market kicked off its summer outdoor season last weekend, and it also marked its 15th anniversary. Located at Plumbers Hall at 1341 W. Randolph, when the market first opened in 2003 the West Loop was not the hot spot it is today. Co-founded by Sally Schwartz and former partner Kathleen Finley, the market,&nbsp;formerly known as Chicago Antique Market, now features more than&nbsp;300 vendors in the summer&nbsp;months. To read CGN&#39;s 2017 interview with Schwartz <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2017/4/in-search-of-the-eclectic">click here</a>.&nbsp;

<img alt="" data-caption="The Richard H. Driehaus Museum in 2014" data-rich-file-id="2804" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2804/original/rdm.jpg" />

The&nbsp;Richard H. Driehaus Museum turns 10 years old this June.&nbsp;In celebration of its milestone tenth anniversary&nbsp;The&nbsp;Museum will reduce regular priced adult admission to $10, from $20, for the weekend of June 8. In addition to the reduced admission, a day of festivities has been planned for Saturday, June 9.&nbsp;The complete schedule of events is available at&nbsp;<a href="http://DriehausMuseum.org/Programs">DriehausMuseum.org/Programs</a>

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<h3>&bull; Art World Moves and&nbsp;Updates</h3>

<a href="http://moniquemeloche.com">Monique Meloche Gallery</a>, which was previously located at 2154&nbsp;W. Division has moved to 451 North Paulina in West Town. The gallery&#39;s&nbsp;inaugural exhibition&nbsp;Jeff Sonhouse:&nbsp;Entrapment&nbsp;opens&nbsp;Saturday, June 9.

Nan Goggin has been named dean of the&nbsp;<a href="https://herron.iupui.edu/index.html">Herron School of Art and Design</a>&nbsp;at IUPUI in Indianapolis effective July 1, subject to approval by the IU Board of Trustees. Goggin previously served as the director of the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois.

<img alt="" data-caption="Self portrait by artist Dabin Ahn" data-rich-file-id="2802" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2802/original/ahn.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/andrew-bae-gallery">Andrew Bae Gallery </a>announced representation of artist&nbsp;Dabin Ahn, who&nbsp;graduated from&nbsp;SAIC in 201. Ahn will have his first solo show at the gallery&nbsp;on July 13. He is also returning to SAIC to enter the&nbsp;MFA program this fall.&nbsp; 
Ahn, born in Korea,&nbsp;is the first new artist the gallery has added to its roster in 13 years.&nbsp;

New Mexico-based visual artist&nbsp;Holly&nbsp;Roberts, known for her technique of combining digital images with paint, will now be represented by <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/schneider-gallery">Schneider Gallery</a> in River North. Much of Roberts&rsquo; thought-provoking work draws from her roots in the Southwest, which holds strong Native American cultural influence.&nbsp;

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<h3>&bull; Announcements</h3>

General registration for the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/filter-photo">2018 Filter Photo Festival&nbsp;</a>opens June 1.&nbsp;Register for&nbsp;workshops and&nbsp;portfolio reviews&nbsp;and take advantage of early bird pricing which is in effect until&nbsp;June 30th. The&nbsp;10th Annual Filter Photo Festival takes place September 27-30 in Chicago.&nbsp;

This May, a cast of&nbsp;M&aacute;ximo,&nbsp;the largest dinosaur ever discovered, is coming to <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/institutions/field-museum-of-natural-history">The&nbsp;Field Museum</a>.&nbsp;The name, Spanish for &ldquo;maximum&rdquo; or &ldquo;most,&rdquo; is a nod to the titanosaur&rsquo;s enormous size and Argentinian homeland. M&aacute;ximo is 122 feet from head to tail, longer than two accordion CTA buses end-to-end, and his head will peek over the museum&rsquo;s second floor balcony.

The participants in the upcoming fourth annual <a href="https://rivernorthdesigndistrict.com">River North Design District&nbsp;Fall Gallery Walk</a> have been announced. The popular walk is expanding this year to include 12 River North art galleries. Each participting design showroom will&nbsp;exhibit&nbsp;vignettes from Chicago&rsquo;s top designers as they showcase living settings with artwork by contemporary artists. Participants for this year&rsquo;s walk include:&nbsp;PROjECT.interiors featuring Eric Gushee, Hailey Lauren Designs featuring Keysook Geum of Andrew Bae Gallery, Nora Schneider Interior Design featuring Terry O&rsquo;Neill of Hilton | Asmus Contemporary, JOLIE ID featuring Arthur Meyerson of The Rangefinder Gallery at Tamarkin Camera, Stephen Young for Kaufman Segal Design featuring Rose Freymuth Frazier of Gallery Victor Armendariz, London Walder Interior Design and Devon Grace Interiors featuring Robin Denevan of Addington Gallery, Robin Thomas Design featuring Rene Romero Schuler of Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Adam Siegel of The Golden Triangle, Blutter Shiff Design Associates featuring Linc Thelen, Kadlec Architecture + Design featuring Dylan Martinez of Echt Gallery, MOOD Design + Build featuring Daniel Jacob of Echt Gallery, Stone | Kent featuring Xiaofei Yue of Galerie Waterton, Inspired Interiors featuring Wendy Franklin of Vale Craft Gallery, Mitchell Channon Design featuring David Yarrow of Hilton | Asmus Contemporary Gallery, Wike | LaFrey featuring Rick Beck of Ken Saunders Gallery, Mia Rao Design featuring Anna Pales of Gruen Gallery, Sarah Dippold Interior Design featuring Gregory Block of Zolla Lieberman Gallery and Steve + Filip Design featuring Mary Ann Papanek-Miller of Jean Albano Gallery. The walk takes place on Friday, September 7 in conjunction with the opening of the fall gallery season. A special family day takes place Saturday, September 8.&nbsp;The vignettes will be exhibited until October 9th.

The Chicago Print Crawl takes place June 24.&nbsp;The free self-guided tour of 20 printmaking production, publishing, exhibition and sales venues in neighborhoods throughout the city, from to Fata Morgana Press in Bridgeport to Galerie F in Logan Square to Free Range Gallery in Albany Park.&nbsp;An after party will take place at Spudnik Press Cooperative. <a href="https://www.spudnikpress.org/event/chicago-print-crawl/">Details</a>&nbsp;

EXPO CHICAGO announced its list of 135 participating galleries for its seventh edition, its most globlal to date. The fair&#39;s dates are also a little later than usual, September 27-30, 2018,&nbsp;due to the fall holidays. Read the CGN post <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2018/5/expo-chicago-announces-participating-galleries-for-seventh-edition">here</a>.

The Other Art Fair, presented by&nbsp;online art gallery&nbsp;Saatchi Art, is coming to Chicago September 28-30&nbsp;and is timed to coincide with EXPO Chicago. TOAF showcases work by 130 talented independent and emerging artists and&nbsp;will take place at Mana Contemporary. The fair also takes place in Bristol, England, Melbourne Australia, London, Los Angeles and Brooklyn.&nbsp;<a href="http://chicago.theotherartfair.com">Details</a>.&nbsp;

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Top of page: a dinosaur bone from&nbsp;M&aacute;ximo,&nbsp;the largest dinosaur ever discovered. On view at the Field Museum.
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In the News: Updates from the CGN Art Community 

EXPO CHICAGO announces 135 participating galleries for its seventh edition of the art fair

EXPO CHICAGO Announces Participating Galleries for Seventh Edition 

By GINNY VAN ALYEA

Richard Gray has died at age 89. He passed away yesterday at home in Chicago.

Gray&nbsp;founded<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/richard-gray-gallery--2">&nbsp;The Richard Gray Gallery</a> on November 4, 1963, at 155 E. Ontario. Today the gallery, which includes a location in the John Hancock Center downtown and a West Side Warehouse venue, as well as a Madison Avenue space in New York,&nbsp;will continue under the leadership&nbsp;of Gray&#39;s son Paul, and partners Andrew Fabricant and Valerie Carberry.&nbsp;

As of 2012 the&nbsp;gallery&rsquo;s sales were just under $100 million, and&nbsp;clients included&nbsp;more than 10 percent of the Forbes 400 list, including nine members from the Chicago area, as well as&nbsp;collectors and museum curators from Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America.

The gallery started out modestly in the early 1960s.&nbsp;With&nbsp;a&nbsp;young family at home&nbsp;at the time, Gray had&nbsp;been looking for a new career after working for his father&#39;s construction business for several years. Gray&#39;s wife Mary Kay Lackritz&nbsp;grew up in a family of art collectors, and Gray, who was trained as an architect, was inspired to follow his own passion for art and open a gallery that would allow him to make a personal passion into a profession.

Eventually the gallery occupied&nbsp;620 N. Michigan Ave. for nearly 30 years, before moving in 1995 to the 25th floor of&nbsp;875 N. Michigan in the John Hancock Center, and today the 38th floor.&nbsp;Gray Warehouse opened in April 2017 at&nbsp;2044 W. Carroll in the Kinzie Industrial Corridor in West Town.&nbsp;

According to Natalie van Straaten, founding publisher of Chicago Gallery News and former Executive Director&nbsp;of the Chicago Art Dealers Association (CADA), &quot;Richard Gray was not only recognized and respected&nbsp;in the international art world, but he also helped transform the Chicago art gallery world with vision, guidance and generosity.&nbsp;He was a mentor and model of integrity&nbsp;for other dealers; his encouragement of establishing the CADA, as well as the first international art exposition in Chicag, helped put our city on the map.&nbsp;His gallery&rsquo;s exhibitions of extraordinary artists brought greatness to the city (including Jaume Plensa to the Crown Fountain) and his philanthropy went well beyond the visual arts and the cultural life of Chicago.&quot;

Gray helped found the CADA in 1967 and was one of its early presidents (1967&ndash;1975). He was elected president of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) in 1998, notably the first dealer based outside of New York to hold the position. He served on the board of the Art Institute of Chicago, where&nbsp;an extensive collection of prints and drawings collected by Gray and his wife Mary are shown. He was also a passionate supporter of the Chicago Symphony Orchestr, The Chicago Humanities Festival, and the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. A&nbsp;center for artistic and scholarly collaboration, the&nbsp;Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, opened on the campus of the University of Chicago&nbsp;in 2013.&nbsp;

In a 2013 interview with CGN Gray recalled,&nbsp;&ldquo;Maybe because of my architecture background, I had a particular interest in draftsmanship, prints and drawings.&nbsp;When I opened the gallery, I had the idea that I&rsquo;d be handling that kind of thing, and that&rsquo;s what happened. I started out by representing established and emerging artists primarily working on paper.&rdquo;

Gray&#39;s reach continued to expand, and he&nbsp;went on to sell art&nbsp;in a range of mediums by such well known artists as&nbsp;Jules Olitski, Morris Louis, Louise Nevelson, Hans Hofmann, Fernand L&eacute;ger and Jim Dine.&nbsp;The gallery roster continued to grow over the decades to feature David&nbsp;Hockney, Josef Albers, Joseph Cornell, Richard Diebenkorn, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Roy Lichtenstein, Agnes Martin, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol, among many others. Gray also significantly represented&nbsp;aboriginal and African art.

&ldquo;My standards were about trusting my own eye, my own sense of aesthetics,&rdquo; Gray recalled. &ldquo;It wasn&rsquo;t the particular style or period that interested me; it was the individual work of art.&rdquo;&nbsp;

&ldquo;They were the best gallery in Chicago, as far as I was concerned,&rdquo; said artist Jim Dine in 2013, still one of the Grays&rsquo; most-shown artists. &ldquo;Richard has a tremendous eye and a great world view, and he was really the only truly international gallery in Chicago for a long time. I was very pleased to be there.&rdquo;&nbsp;

van Straaten said, &quot;[Richard] will be missed, but what a great legacy he left for Chicago.&quot;

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To read CGN&#39;s 2013 interview with Paul Gray on the occasion of the gallery&#39;s 50th anniversary, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2013/9/50-years-a-milestone-arrives-quietly-at-richard-gray-gallery">click here</a>.
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Chicago dealer and art pioneer Richard Gray has died at age 89.

Chicago Art Dealer and Pioneer Richard Gray Has Died at 89

Art Shay, a Chicago-based photographer whose iconic images are known around the world, died Saturday, April 28 in Deerfield at age 96.&nbsp;

Shay&#39;s photography career spanned 70 years, during which he risked his life capturing tragic images of fighting during&nbsp;WWII, and he created images of the Civil Rights movement that revealed to the world people&#39;s struggles and triumphs.&nbsp;

Shay memorialized&nbsp;celebrities and famous figures&nbsp;like Elizabeth Taylor, Simone de Beauvoir, John F. Kennedy, and Nelson Algren, among&nbsp;others, and he got inside Hugh Hefner&#39;s Playboy mansion to capture socializing bunnies and their guests. He worked for LIFE, Time,&nbsp;Sports Illustrated and many other publications. And Shay&nbsp;was on the ground during the tumultous Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968, reportedly geting maced in the process.

Shay was prolific during his long life and career, and he was admired around the world, but especially in Chicago where he made his home. In 2015 the Musuem of Contemporary Photography gave Shay the Silver Camera award in honor of his important work.&nbsp;

A show of his photographs opens this Friday, May 4 as part of <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/art-shay-writers-and-freedom-fighters">Writers and Freedom Fighters</a>&nbsp;at Gallery Victor Armendariz in River North. Shay was previously represented by friend and long-time dealer Ann Nathan.&nbsp;

Click below to read obituaries from other area news outlets:

<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/art-shay-legendary-photographer-dies-at-96/">Chicago Sun Times</a>

<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-art-shay-tribute-kogan-sidewalks-0431-story.html">Chicago Tribune</a>

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Top image: Richard and Art Shay, MoCP Silver Camera Award, photography by Jessica Tampas

<img alt="" data-caption="Art Shay, Simone de Beauvoir, silver gelatin print, 14 x 11" data-rich-file-id="2737" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2737/original/simonedebeauvior1950artshay.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Art Shay, MLK at Chicago Freedom Rally, archival pigment print, 13 x 19 inches" data-rich-file-id="2735" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2735/original/asy64mlking1966web.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Art Shay, I Am A Man, Memphis, 1968 archival pigment print, 28.5 x 21.5 inches" data-rich-file-id="2733" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2733/original/asy048-artshay.jpg" />

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Photographer Art Shay Dies

Chicago-based arts writer and School of the Art Institute professor&nbsp;James Yood died yesterday, April 21. He was born in 1952 and received a BA in 1974 from the University of Wisconsin, and received his MA in 1976 and was a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago. He most recently taught Art History, and Theory and Criticism at SAIC and headed the school&#39;s&nbsp;New Arts Journalism program. He also taught at Northwestern University.

Yood was very well known and admired throghout the Chicago and national art community. &nbsp;He wrote for&nbsp;Artforum;&nbsp;GLASS; art ltd; and&nbsp;Visual Art Source.&nbsp;He wrote several books, including&nbsp;Gladys Nilsson;&nbsp;Spirited Visions: Portraits of Chicago Artists, and&nbsp;Second Sight: Printmaking in Chicago 1935-95. Yood was also the Chicago managing editor of the&nbsp;New Art Examiner, which led to writing to Artforum and other international publications.&nbsp;

Yood spent his career sharing Chicago art and artists with the world. He&nbsp;challenged artists&nbsp;to look at their own art more critically in order to strengthen&nbsp;their work and&nbsp;gain broader attention around the country.&nbsp;

Artforum&#39;s tribute to Yood&nbsp;referenced&nbsp;an early&nbsp;essay&nbsp;for the New Art Examiner, which&nbsp;they cite to as a turning point for his own wider recognition: &quot;[Yood]&nbsp;challenged a local trend of exhibiting group shows of &ldquo;emerging&quot; artists: &#39;It would be, quite simply, impossible to gauge trends in Chicago art by the work of these emergent artists, besides noting that young artists are the same everywhere: anything goes,&#39;&nbsp;he mused. &#39;Perhaps part of the cosmopolitanization of Chicago will be the loss of what some see as its idiosyncratic and fussy style.&#39;&nbsp;The piece made an impression, and soon after it was published in 1986, he began reviewing for national and international outlets like&nbsp;Artforum&nbsp;and&nbsp;Aperture.&quot;

In an interview by Tom Burtonwood for <a href="http://www.chicagoartistsresource.org/artist-stories/james-yood-contemporary-art-critic-and-essayist">Chicago Artists Resource</a> in 2008, Yood said, when asked what critics contribute to the arts community, &quot;We&#39;re part of the mix&mdash;along with artists, dealers, curators, and collectors&mdash;that in the aggregate help create the context of contemporary art. We can help conversations get started, and (sorry if this sound pretentious!), we&#39;re part of the peer group that begins the process of evaluation, of historical reckoning. It&#39;s an awkward process, sometimes painful and unfair, and sometimes altered by subsequent events. But it&#39;s the system that has evolved steadily over the last two centuries, that artists create art and then it leaves the studio and enters the world where it becomes a commodity, both financially and intellectually, that gets picked at and assessed, consumed in a way by its diverse audiences. I&#39;m part of that audience, with the astounding good fortune that some art magazines, etc., are willing to let me think out loud, so to speak, about what I see.&quot;

Details on a planned service on April 27 may be <a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?n=james-yood&amp;pid=188815949&amp;fhid=14572">found here</a>.&nbsp;

Click here for the <a href="https://www.artforum.com/news/james-yood-19522018-75105">Artforum</a> tribute.&nbsp;

Photo courtesy of SAIC

Art Critic and SAIC Professor James Yood Dies

Yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago, some very generous donors made it&nbsp;rain. Well, it was actually sunny outside, finally, but inside there was news of some mega donations being made by members of the museum&#39;s board of trustees. Following is the press release shared by the Art Institute. The two significant gifts were cultivated by president James Rondeau, ensuring&nbsp;strength and development for the museum for years to come. &ndash;GV

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The Art Institute of Chicago announced today a $50 million unrestricted gift from Janet and Craig Duchossois and a $20 million gift from Robert and Diane v.S. Levy for acquisitions and operations. These historic gifts advance the museum&rsquo;s civic mission and enable bold planning for the future.&nbsp;

&ldquo;It is an honor to work with trustees whose foresight and generosity will shape the museum&rsquo;s impact on our community for generations to come,&rdquo; said James Rondeau, President and Eloise W. Martin Director. &ldquo;Gifts such as these allow the museum to look forward with certainty and ambition, serving our city as one of the world&rsquo;s greatest art museums.&rdquo; 
 
Janet Duchossois shared, &ldquo;Craig and I chose to make this unrestricted gift to demonstrate our confidence and support of James Rondeau and the board. We are proud to be partners in their strategy and approach for the museum both today and in the future.&rdquo;&nbsp; 
 
A Voting Trustee of the Art Institute Board of Trustees, Janet Duchossois is also Chair of the museum&rsquo;s Sustaining Fellows. She serves as Co-Chair of the Committee on Libraries and is a member of the committees on Modern and Contemporary Art and Prints and Drawings. Craig Duchossois is CEO of The Duchossois Group, a privately held, family-owned company with holdings in the consumer products, technology, and service sectors. He is Vice Chair of the boards of the University of Chicago Medical Center and the Illinois Institute of Technology, and serves on the boards of the University of Chicago, the Culver Educational Foundation, World Business Chicago, and the Executives&rsquo; Club of Chicago 
 
Robert Levy is in his second term as Chair of the Art Institute&rsquo;s Board of Trustees. He is a retired partner, chairman, and chief investment officer for U.S. Equities at Harris Associates L.P. Mr. Levy is vice chair of the board at the University of Pennsylvania and chairs The Power of Penn campaign. He also serves as president of the Robert M. Levy and Diane v.S. Levy Family Foundation, which he founded with his wife, Diane von Schlegell Levy. Diane v.S. Levy is currently a member of the Art Institute&rsquo;s committees on Textiles, European Decorative Arts, and Ancient and Byzantine Arts. Mrs. Levy is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Field Museum, the Board of Directors of Chicago Botanic Garden, and served on the Board of Overseers of the Penn Museum for 10 years. 
 
&ldquo;We have a strong and committed board of trustees, dedicated to our role as an active civic partner, accessible to all members of our community,&rdquo; said Robert Levy. &ldquo;This extraordinary gift from Janet and Craig is critical to fulfilling the museum&rsquo;s mission and enhancing our visitors&rsquo; experiences.&rdquo; ##

Image:&nbsp;The Art Institute of Chicago.&nbsp;The Woman&#39;s Board Grand Staircase.&nbsp;Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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A Very Good Day for the Art Institute of Chicago

<a href="https://www.expochicago.com">EXPO CHICAGO</a> gets closer every day, and the closer it gets, the more this upcoming edition takes shape. &nbsp;As is typical of the fair, they continue to build their programming lineup and to expand their international ties.&nbsp;

Yesterday the art fair announced that for its seventh annual exhibition, taking place again on Navy Pier&nbsp;September 27&ndash;30, 2018, they are&nbsp;rolling&nbsp;out some major&nbsp;programmatic expansions here at home as well as in Europe.&nbsp;The biggest announcement was about an&nbsp;onsite panel and performance at the&nbsp;U.S. Pavilion&nbsp;of the&nbsp;16th Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy. Participants from Chicago will include Niall Atkinson, Ann Lui, and Mimi Zeiger of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago, panelists Amanda Williams,&nbsp;Andres L. Hernandez,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Shani Crowe and&nbsp;moderator&nbsp;Stephanie Cristello,&nbsp;EXPO CHICAGO Director of Programming and Editor-in-Chief of&nbsp;THE SEEN.

They also trumpeted&nbsp;the third annual /Dialogues Symposium,&nbsp;Present Histories: Art &amp; Design in Chicago, that will address&nbsp;select art and design legacies produced in the city and take&nbsp;place during EXPO CHICAGO in conjunction with the&nbsp;Terra Foundation for American Art&rsquo;s initiative&nbsp;Art Design Chicago, presented in partnership with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Additional details from the April 11 EXPO press release are shared below. &ndash;GV

<h2>EXPO CHICAGO at the U.S. Pavilion&nbsp;2018 Venice Architecture Biennale</h2>

<h3>SUNDAY, MAY 27, 2018</h3>

For the first time ever, the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale will be curated by a joint team led by Niall Atkinson, Ann Lui, and Mimi Zeiger of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago. Their vision,&nbsp;Dimensions of Citizenship, will challenge architects, designers, artists, and critics to respond to transformative modes of belonging at radically different scales, from the citizen to the cosmos.&nbsp;EXPO CHICAGO will partner with SAIC and the University of Chicago to&nbsp;present a program as part&nbsp;of the official Vernissage for the U.S. Pavilion on&nbsp;Sunday, May 27, 2018.

10:45&ndash;11:30am 
Panel Discussion 
Location | U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 
Panelists | Amanda Williams&nbsp;(Chicago-based Artist and Architect, Participant in the U.S. Pavilion),&nbsp;Andres L. Hernandez&nbsp;(Chicago-based Artist and Architect, Participant in the U.S. Pavilion) and&nbsp;Shani Crowe&nbsp;(Chicago-based Artist). Moderated by EXPO CHICAGO Director of Programming and Editor-in-Chief of&nbsp;THE SEEN,&nbsp;Stephanie Cristello. 
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Tackling questions of citizenship status, gender and race at the intersection of history, theory and practice of art and architecture, this panel will explore the unique ways in which black women have historically navigated and shaped space to advance their position in American society. Highlighting the historical figures of Harriet Jacobs and Harriet Tubman as muses, this conversation will trace the impact of American history on Williams and Hernandez&rsquo;s practice, complemented by a performative element by Shani Crowe, preceding the conversation.&nbsp; 
 
For more information, click&nbsp;<a href="https://www.expochicago.com/programs/year-round">here</a>. 
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Presented in partnership with the commissioners of the U.S. Pavilion, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago.

<h2>/Dialogues at EXPO CHICAGO</h2>

<h3>Symposium |&nbsp;Present Histories:&nbsp;Art &amp; Design in Chicago 
 
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28</h3>

A curated component of the full /Dialogues program, presented in partnership with the&nbsp;School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the third annual Symposium will feature a day-long series of discussions open to all EXPO CHICAGO visitors, presented in alignment with&nbsp;Art Design Chicago&nbsp;and the Terra Foundation for American Art. Entitled&nbsp;Present Histories: Art &amp; Design in Chicago,&nbsp;the Symposium will trace select artistic and design legacies produced in the city, spanning from 1968&ndash;2018, as well as their impact on the larger social, aesthetic, and cultural movements from the twentieth-century to the present.&nbsp; 
 
For more information, click&nbsp;<a href="https://www.expochicago.com/programs/dialogues/2018-symposium">here</a>. 
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Presented in partnership with the Terra Foundation for American Art and Art Design Chicago. 
 
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<h3>Full Schedule:&nbsp;/Dialogues Stage</h3>

Sept 28,&nbsp;11:30am 
Performance:&nbsp;R&eacute;v&eacute;rence&nbsp; 
 
Artist&nbsp;Brendan Fernandes&nbsp;(Artist | Monique Meloche Gallery)&nbsp;stages a site-specific iteration of his performative work&nbsp;R&eacute;v&eacute;rence&nbsp;(2015), featuring a series of choreographed dancers to both welcome and confront the audience. Using his training in classical ballet, alongside his unique cultural background as a Kenyan-Indian-Canadian, the performance features classically-trained dancers from the Joffrey Academy of Dance to question identity and power dynamics. 
 
12:00pm &ndash; 1:00pm 
Brendan Fernandes | In Conversation with Sarah Thornton 
 
This discussion, between author and sociologist of culture Sarah Thornton with Chicago-based artist Brendan Fernandes, will trace the impact of Fernandes&rsquo; work, as well as the role of performance in his practice, which questions positions of power, control and &lsquo;queering space.&rsquo;

Sept 28,&nbsp;2:00&ndash;3:00pm 
AfriCOBRA: Chicago in the Age of Black Power&nbsp; 
Featuring&nbsp;|&nbsp;Gerald Williams&nbsp;(Artist | Kavi Gupta Gallery, Founding Member of AfriCOBRA) 
 
This panel is presented in alignment with Art Design Chicago exhibitions at the Smart Museum of Art and the DuSable Museum of African American History,&nbsp;South Side Stories: Rethinking Chicago Art, 1960&ndash;1980&nbsp;and&nbsp;South Side Stories: Holdings,&nbsp;which focuses on the Black Arts Movement&mdash;from the Civil Rights Movement to AfriCOBRA.&nbsp;

Sept 28,&nbsp;4:00&ndash;5:00pm 
Alterity and the Exhibition Environment: Feminist History of Alternative Spaces in Chicago&nbsp;

Panelists |&nbsp;Lynne Warren&nbsp;(Adjunct Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago),&nbsp;Torkwase Dyson(Artist | Rhona Hoffman Gallery),&nbsp;and&nbsp;Kay Rosen&nbsp;(Artist | Alexander Gray and Associates, ARC Member). Moderated by&nbsp;Jenni Sorkin&nbsp;(SAIC BFA 1999), (Associate Professor, History of Art &amp; Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara).

Alternative spaces are often discussed within the canon of Chicago&rsquo;s exhibition history. Yet, these spaces also played a parallel role in the activities that defined feminist art and social practice in the city&rsquo;s scene. This conversation will trace the histories and roles of feminism in Chicago&#39;s alternative spaces from the 1970s to the present. 
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Sept 28,&nbsp;5:00pm 
Publication Launch |&nbsp;Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now 
Published by the Terra Foundation for American Art, this newly launched publication will be available for a book signing at the /Dialogues Stage through the University of Chicago Press.

Screening | Designers in Film: A Glimpse into the Goldsholl Archive 
A screening of select films and reels produced by Goldsholl and Associates&mdash;whose films, televi-sion ads and other moving image work innovated &ldquo;designs-in-film&rdquo;&mdash;will be on view at the /Dialogues Stage, as an inter-lude to the final conversation in the Symposium on Chicago&rsquo;s Mid-Century impact on the adve-rtising and commercial industry at large.

Sept 28,&nbsp;5:30&ndash;6:30pm 
Making the Modern Image:&nbsp;Mid-Century Commercial Industry in Chicago 
Panelists&nbsp;|&nbsp;Theaster Gates&nbsp;(Artist | Rebuild Foundation),&nbsp;Corinne&nbsp;Granof&nbsp;(Curator of Academic Programs, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University) and&nbsp;Lara Allison&nbsp;(Lecturer, Art History, Theory and Criticism,&nbsp;School of the Art Institute of Chicago). Moderated by&nbsp;Michael Golec&nbsp;(Associate Professor, Art History, Theory and Criticism, SAIC). 
 
Through recent exhibitions that relate the advertising and commercial publications industries to the context of contemporary art, this discussion will trace Chicago&rsquo;s contribution to the glossy image that defined the Mid-Century aesthetic. Examining the political, social and cultural impact of these design philosophies, this panel will look at the national impact of firms and companies whose work pushed industry boundaries through avant-garde approaches.&nbsp;

Top image:&nbsp;Gerald Williams,&nbsp;Portrait Y,&nbsp;1970&ndash;2007.&nbsp;Acrylic on linen.&nbsp;24 x 18 inches. Image courtesy of the artist and Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago.